From the monthly archives: July 2012

Creating an Android app which uses a provider library

By On 19 July 2012 · 1 Comment

1. Get the library jar from your phone, using the ADB (Android Debugger Bridge). It will be in /system/framework somewhere. In my case it was the file fmreceiverif.jar.
2. Unpack the jar and get the classes.dex file.
3. Use dex2jar to convert this file to a jar file, i.e. convert the Dalvik VM […]

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WordPress <code> does not keep code indent’s – use <pre>

By On 2 July 2012 · Leave a Comment

Yup. Silly as it may sound the <code> tags in WordPress are pretty much useless when you want to paste a code snippet and not have it look like a poem written by crazy robot… 🙂 Use the <pre> .. </pre> tags instead.

Here’s an example.

Code formatted with ‘<code>’:

while( 1 […]

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Convert UNIX time_t into a date/time text string

By On 2 July 2012 · 3 Comments

Often times, when working with the standard Linux/UNIX time format (time_t) one needs to quickly find out what is the “human readable” date and time text string a particular time_t value corresponds to.

NOTE: The ‘C’ time_t type is the number of seconds elapsed since the “epoch”, the epoch being January 1st 1970 at 00:00:00.

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