Archive 8. July 2012

Custom Drawn Interface/Android - Lazarus wiki. Hah, there is also quite a bit for FreePascal and Lazarus (the FP IDE with a touch of Delphi) regarding the programming of Android apps. It's all still a bit wobbly and hacky, but it's making progress. The idea is quite funny - a minimal Java app with minimal activity and then the integration of Pascal code via JNI. The idea there is to be able to continue using the LCL - the GUI library of Lazarus - so that you can program across systems. And you can then also use the built-in GUI Builder.

Basic4android Basic for Android - Rapid Application Development. Heh, nice, a kind of Visual Basic for Android. Unfortunately only for Windows. Too bad.

Android - Processing. Oh, that's interesting. The latest Processing 2.0 Alpha can also directly support Android - and it's really simple, just write a Processing app, switch to Android and use "Run on device" to bring it all to the device and start it there. That sounds really interesting for the typical small hacks, especially if you want to play around with graphics (that's the focus of Processing).

necessitas / Home / necessitas. Hmm, sounds quite interesting - a QT version for Android including an IDE for programming apps. Maybe I'll check it out when my Nexus is here.

Lion: Mobile Backup Turn off local Time Machine | Jan-Kaspar Münnich. No idea if I already had this, too lazy to search, but if the local Time Machine backups are annoying (e.g. with smaller SSDs, this is anything but practical, especially if you occasionally perform larger file operations), you can turn them off with tmutil disablelocal and turn them on with tmutil enablelocal. For example, when performing larger cleanup tasks, it makes sense to turn them off, even if you activate them later to have the additional work safety. Or you simply archive everything on the notebook in git or mercurial, then you naturally don't need local backups either.