In preparation for residency, I wanted to finally settle on a stable ROM for my Asus Nexus 7 (“grouper”) tablet. As a long time AOKP fan, I wanted to compare how it stacked up against some of the more unique ROMs like Paranoid Android 3.
Since Twitter is requiring OAuth authorization for all API 1.1 requests, I had to modify the function which automatically refreshed my Twitter follower and tweet count every hour (caching it using WordPress’ Transients API). The workhorse for this function is Abraham Williams’ OAuth PHP library.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is undoubtedly one of the most powerful phones on the market. After unlocking the bootloader and flashing a custom ROM, I put it to the test during a typical day on the clinical wards. Here are several features I was thoroughly impressed with. THE SCREEN Many…
Compile errors 30 minutes into an Android build process? Want to incorporate the bleeding edge of development into your ROM? It’s “cherry picking” time! Cherry picking is just that – “picking” pieces of code which are still under project development to incorporate into your build. Here’s a brief tutorial of…
The CDNJS repository (powered by Cloudflare) claims to “host everything” (within reason based on popularity) and has faster response times than either Google or Microsoft’s much more limited content delivery networks (CDNs). There several WordPress plugins which automatically redirect script requests to CDNJS, but for the sake of optimization, there’s no…
Minimizing HTTP requests is one of the “rules” of general web optimization. Data uniform resource identifier (URI) schemes provide a great way to embed images within a page without requiring an HTTP request for each image. I used the data URI method to create a social bar (in this site’s…
With residency around the corner, I wanted to take advantage of Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2012 deals to build a new workstation to power my life as a resident physician. I sought to combine the storage capacity of my FreeNAS box with the versatility of OSX on my previous workstation (“The Overmind”) –…
Yesterday afternoon I decided to embark on a mini-project to spruce up my sole means of transportation – changing the spark plugs. I went over to the local auto store and purchased six NGK Iridium IX © spark plugs for $6.99 a piece. Dealerships (pronounced “stealer-ships” to gearheads) have been…
Counter-Strike is a tactical first-person shooter pitting a team of terrorists (Ts) against counter-terrorists (CTs); rounds are won either by completing the objective (planting the bomb, defusing the bomb, rescuing hostages, etc.) or eliminating the opposing team.
I installed an MTEC aftermarket HID kit a few years ago, but noticed that the visibility just wasn’t what I should be getting with this technology – after spending some time adjusting the housings, my driving visibility significantly improved. The hard part was finding how to adjust them (see the…