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CodeDependent: The Clothing Line

(Cross-post with my humor blog ; I figured this content would wear well on my geek blog, too). For no good reason at all, I decided that geeks need more T-shirts and that I need to provide them. Fortunately, I don't have to pit my sewing skills against such a high goal; I'll just let CafePress do it for me. Here's the first such effort, especially topical for this blog, " codedependent " (available in various colors/styles - see the site for the full array):

Video: Reflections on Android

Everyone's supposed to make a resolution on New Years, so here's mine: post more articles/blogs/videos about Android development. Starting with today's video tutorial. Here's the first in what I hope will be a series of video tutorials on anything ranging from graphics to animation and back to graphics (hey, it's my show and I might as well talk about the things I enjoy). For the Devoxx conference last November, I developed a simple picture-viewing application to demonstrate various facets of UI development that Romain Guy and I were talking about that week. You can see the presentations online at parleys.com (you'll have to register for 79 Euros to get access to them for now). But I wanted to deep dive into particular aspects of this application for my blog. Here's the first of these tutorials, in which I talk about the simple reflection effect used in the application. By the way, credit for the beautiful pictures goes to Romain , my source for all of m