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Crawling the Android Marketplace
I had a very specific need for fetching the details for some apps in the Android marketplace, in an automated manner. Here I’m describing a script that I used to crawl the marketplace back in 2011.
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Android Learning Resources
Starting out learning Android development may be intimidating at first, as with any new platform of reasonable complexity you’ll have a lot to learn. However the learning process is fun. So here are some learning resources that I’m currently following.
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Earning Money as an Amazon Affiliate
I published an article that I've meant to publish for a long time. I'm usually lazy to not bother writing many articles, however this time I also thought about doing an experiment - you see I'm (1) on a tight budget and (2) a cheap bastard - so what if I could get enough money to pay for my monthly hosting on Linode, while satisfying my urge to write from time to time?
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4 Books For Learning to Design, The Hard Way
I present some books I enjoyed, which is the path I’m taking to get better at design and user experience.
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How I Use Flickr: For Backup
I’ve got a growing number of personal pictures and the collection is growing since 2003 … Pro accounts on Flickr have unlimited storage and can upload and access full-resolution pictures.
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Why I Find Heroku Suboptimal
Heroku is great. It basically allows you to avoid growing-up. The deployment itself couldn’t be simpler, and when browsing their web interface for available add-ons, I feel like a child in a candy-store. But I’ve outgrown it.
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Cross-Domain, Cross-Browser AJAX Requests
This article describes how to make cross-browser requests, in all browsers (including IExplorer 6), using web standards along with fallbacks and without using a proxy or JSONP (which is limited and awkward) – as long as you control the destination server, or if the destination server allows.
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I hate NULL and all its variants!
How many times have you had a chain of methods like this (example showing BeautifulSoup in action) …
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FreeSWITCH - Tips for Creating a Dialer
FreeSWITCH is a free and open source application server for real-time communication, WebRTC, telecommunications, video and Voice over Internet Protocol. Let’s build a VoIP dialer with it.
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Using the Best Tools in Programming: Not Really Doable
There's something that bothers me when it comes to starting a new project. You can't really use the best tool for a certain job, if that tool is not integrated with the rest of your platform. Let me explain.
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