Android Debugging

So after 30 minutes of debugging Android I realize that you can't assign an int to a text view without casting it as a string first. Frustrated but VICTORIOUS!!!

Code Camp

So today I went to silicon valley code camp. I went to a couple of great sessions. I learned about making mobile games with html5 and then secure hashing and password protection. Then I got to go to a Google glass demonstration by some guys over at Wakanda, super cool! And now I'm finishing up the day with some intro to game programming in eclipse. Absolutely awesome day with awesome people

The world is flat

After one of my professors mentioned a book in a lecture, "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman, I decided to download the sample from Google play and check it out. Just from the first thirty pages... Wow. It's definitely a little nerve racking. The whole book is about globalization and the first part talks about the Indian city of Bangalore, which is equated to India's Silicon Valley, as a utopia in the middle of the desert. Friedman talk about the outsourcing of labor and that it really turns the world in to a flat market where anyone can compete with anyone... from anywhere.

What this means for me as a computer science student is that I'm not just going to be competing with my graduating class in the US for a job, but every graduate across the world for a job. So I ask myself, how will I compete. Right now, my answer is that I have smooth enough soft skills to work with people. I believe that my selling points and hiring points are that I can work with people one-on-one and that is how I plan on competing in a globalized industry... at least for now.

git is going down

So I'm taking some time and getting a grip on git, google code, and version control in general. I spent a couple hours working on being able to upload a project, pull, push and commit.

calSpeed domination jdk1.7

So this week I got hired by Dr. Byun, one of my professors, to work on developing a web based internet speed connection test for the university. It's part of a larger project that my university is working on for CPUC.

So I got some source code from the previous project to get familiar with it. I had some issues running the project in netbeans and I just now resolved the last dependency. Turns out, the jdk1.7 library not only has to be in place but have the exact same title to be linked properly. #littlebugs

C++ to C

So after writing my game prog. homework assignment in C++ I read the prompt to discover that the assignment is to write it in C.

Now I begin the rigorous process of turning cout and cin tokens to printf and scanf tokens.... spännande.

New classes

I'm taking some new classes here at CSUMB. I'm taking game programming which is seeming to be a advanced c++ course, my Professional seminar lecture which is a great load of information on the job search process, and duah-duah-DAA!! I'm taking my bachelors thesis class, which here is called a capstone. I'm super stoked for these courses.

Oh and I'm also taking keyboards 1 =D

Android Development Group

 

Me and some friends have started a club for android development at CSU Monterey Bay. We had our first meeting and everything went great. We were able to run sample apps on the computers which had android preinstalled in eclipse, we were able to run the apps on the emulators and we filled out the form to be an official club.

All in all, super kickass day!

Back from Sweden

First lesson re-learned about Android Programming. All activities must be declared in the android manifest file. grrrrr....

Android +==+ Server Communication

So I'm running a MAMP environment on my mac and I just got an android app I made to sent post data to a webpage and update a database. This might seem super simple but I think it's so cool. It's for my E-Commerce class and I think it's just freakin' epic.

I had to figure a bunch of port stuff out, how to do asynchronous thread stuff for networking, and then how to use a Data Access Layer and a Business Logic layer. At the end of the day, I've learned a freaking ton. =D