I’m looking for companies (and people) who need access to barcode data. This could be for data feeds, barcode scanning and data retrieval via the cloud. For example: Your mobile app scans the barcode, you contact a service and get data back about the barcode such as manufacturer, nutritional data, pictures, urls where to purchase the goods (and possibly much more). If this is something you, or your company needs (or already currently does have) please contact me as I’d like to ask you a few questions about your data needs and any pain points you have around it. I’m doing...
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This post/article came out of frustration of working at various engagements over the course of my career. From full time gigs to on site consulting to my current position(s) – a) Building my startups (Qonqr, AgileMedicine, Barcodes.io, etc) and b) Remote consulting with very infrequent in person face to face meetings. I decided years ago that I would guinea pig myself as a test subject to see if what everyone “says” will work, would actually work. This being the statement that a remote workforce would or would not work. I’ve always believed that it would. ...
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This post is a follow up to CrazyBob’s great post on the same subject. A big thanks to him for posting it as it helped me and my team get to our final result of getting Android to communicate with a custom CA (Thawte in this case). The Original Problem In short, I was getting the dreaded error: SSLException: Not trusted server certificate This happened in Android when attempting to contact one of our servers in Germany. The problem is that the server is signed with a Thawte certificate and unfortunately Thawte is not in the list of known CA‘s in Android source code (yes, there...
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If you’ve recently upgraded to IntelliJ 10.5 and are using it for Android development you might run into an odd issue where when you try to debug IntelliJ hangs and says “Waiting for ADB” and then freezes. The IDE does not respond to any events and eventually you have to kill it. Something changed in the config values for IntelliJ (from what I can tell through my research online) and the best way to get around this error is to invalidate the caches and restart the IDE. After that, you should be golden. Enjoy. ...
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It’s been awhile since my last update, and there’s good reason for this. There’s a ton of great stuff happening.But before I get to that, lets get to the real topic at hand. I’ve told my close friends and colleagues that I’m moving, so now its time to tell everyone else. To where you ask? Back to the Valley of the Sun, the heat trap, the blistering hot desert and what I had called home for over 10 years of my life. The next question is usually … ...
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