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Airport Extreme and Brother 2170w Setup

Written on February 1, 2012 by Donn in Uncategorized

Today I got a new Apple Airport Extreme router / base station. I have a Brother 2170w wireless printer (basically set it up, and you can print wirelessly all over your office or house or wherever). Its freaking great. I really think every office should have one of these lying around. Its simply awesome. Previously…

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Minimum Viable Programming

Written on January 10, 2012 by Donn in Startup

My background is in software development, not marketing, not sales, not real estate … its software development. Over the years I’ve been a full time employee, consultant and business owner and entrepreneur. While the businesses I’ve started are not making gobs of cash like Yelp or Facebook, they definitely make my life a lot easier…

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The Wrong Time and Wrong Market (or Failing in the Entertainment Industry)

Written on December 14, 2011 by Donn in Startup

This is a quick story about how I started my first company (a record label) after college, lived my dream, drained my life savings (and more) and eventually moved this into my memory bank as one of the funnest times I’ve ever had. The Story … Back in the early 2000′s I started a record…

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Building an Android Notification Bubble

Written on December 2, 2011 by Donn in Design, Mobile

This is a simple post in which I’m going to show you how you can create a simple notification on top of an existing button that looks just like an iOS/OSX notification, as shown below: Concept I want to do this WITHOUT any 9 patch images whatsoever. If you look closely, you’ll see that the…

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Android Validation with EditText

Written on November 23, 2011 by Donn in Uncategorized

Here’s a quick tip to spice up your Android applications. A lot of people perform Android input validation when a button is pressed and display the validation message in a dialog as shown below. However, there’s a much easier (and elegant way) to do this by using the built in setError construct of the EditText…

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