A Simply Advanced Blog

We’ve just finished moving our blog from using Wordpress to Jekyll. The pages are now static and don’t require any database to operate properly. Here’s all the default blog text that Jekyll provides:
You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates...

Recently, I started working on Android Wear for the first time. It’s been fun playing around with the new platform and form factor. And, of course, the official Android docs that I read could be condensed further for absolute newcomers. So, in the typical...

Today, I’ve released a new open source project that has help me build my latest app. I needed an EditText with fully capabilities, except for the keyboard showing up. All of the possible answers that I found on StackOverflow and GitHub all had their...

Ever needed to prefix many variable names? Here’s the solution.
Watch part of this short video real quick to see what the following code is used for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQJHFKaLje4
So, what’s happening in the video? I recently had a long list of variables, and using a simple key command, I add a prefix to the variable names and capitalize the entire variable name as a best practice, because it is a constant. For all of the work...