I’m impressed with the Android Dev Guide. It’s fairly comprehensive guide, however, I can say from personal experience that the Dev Guide is not complete in all areas. One key example is the section on developing on a device. I followed the instructions exactly. The last couple of lines state the following: You can verify…
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Could Not Import Contacts Into G1 From CSV…
This is one of those blog posts that simply exist for the simple reason that if I run into this issue again I can find it later (and hopefully someone else will find it and it will help them too). I recently got a new G1 and I exported my contacts into CSV from my…
Twin Cities Pragmatic/ALT.NET Beer Tomorrow
Tomorrow we have another Twin Cities Pragmatic Beer event at the Herkimer in Minneapolis (Uptown). Another name for this same event is the Twin Cities ALT.NET Beers. For more information on where the Herkimer is and what time things are going to get going, see the site here. See you there.
LINQ: Single() vs First()
Continuing on my path to LINQ greatness, I want to cover another topic that some people get confused over: LINQ’s First() vs. Single(). Both perform a particular task for us, but just by looking at the name you’d never know which one performed the action that you expected. First() returns the first element in a…
LINQ: Any() vs. Count()
In most code that you find that uses lists you will find something like this: if(products.Count() > 0) { // Do stuff } Personally, I’ve seen this literally thousands of times. While this works and gets the job done, there is one issue with this method. It enumerates the entire enumerable collection. What if you…
