Mines is in the Market

Mines, my minesweeper clone for the Android platform finally made it into the Android market. It was a lot of work but mostly fun. I am not quite satisfied with the art works yet (though I tried my best), so if you want to help improve let me know.

(Download count at the time of this writing: 839)

obfuscate4e 0.7.0 released

Just want to let you know that obfuscate4e 0.7.0 is now available to help you obfuscate your eclipse plugins. The hightlight of this release is automatic detection of classes referenced in extensions. This makes setting up your project for obfuscation a lot easier. So check it out!

Android Minesweeper: Yes we can!

Thanks to my folks from PartMaster I own a Android Dev Phone 1 for a couple of weeks now. I am quite impressed by the Android platform, although the G1 is not quite as slick as the IPhone. But this definitely has a huge potential. Especially the extensiblity and openess are amazing.

Coding for Android is no different from regular java, but it takes a while to get to know the framework concepts and classes. I chose to port the minesweeper code which I already use in eidle. Since I could reuse the model code as is, I had the basic game running within an hour and could then focus on the UI widgets, menus, preferences and lifecycle issues etc. This was really fun and ideal to get used to android. The application is not finished yet, but it is working smoothly already.

Stay tuned for updates.

A Feed Reader for Eidle

One of the things I have on my ToDo list for quite a while is integrating feed reading into one of my little fun projects, the Eidle screensaver framework. As I stumbled on Google's feed API yesterday I realized how easy that would be. I saved the sample they provide here to my hard disk, fiddled around with the css styling to make it look more appealing for a screen saver, and set eidle's browser screen properties to use it.
I am quite happy with the outcome, with just an hour of work. In general, with integrating a browser into eidle the possibilities are manyfold, the sky being the limit. Currently, you can only have one browser screen in eidle, but I think of a less static use of the eidle screens for a while already. So stay tuned for news! In the meantime check out eidle and build your own browser based screens. I'm looking forward to hearing about your ideas.

P.S. You can even let Google generate the code for you.

Monkey bidden

Lately I have installed GreaseMonkey and GreaseFire. This really lubes up Firefox. Lot's of cool scripts that enhance many popular sites. But the real fun started when I decided to build a script myself.
Here is the problem it solves: I often visit a page to find out about upcoming events. If something is interesting I add an entry to my Google calendar. All the data I need for this entry is there on the event info page. So lots of copy/paste here. My script now adds a button next to each event and when I click it generates the calender entry for me in a new tab. All I have to do then is press another button (save) and close the tab. Very handy, and I have a lot of events in my calender now. ;-)

eidle 0.2 final finally

The new version 0.2 of Eidle is available! Get it NOW!

Eidle 0.2 Release Canditate 2

The second candidate of the version 0.2 of Eidle is available. It includes all the functionality planned for 0.2. Since candidate 1, I added (basic) support for multi-monitor systems and further evolved the auto minesweeper.
The final release isn't far away and will probably not be too different from this candidate. So give it a try, and tell me what you think.