W.F.M.H.'s blog

Among many other devices I appeared to own LG G-Slate v909 Android tablet, I was given on one of the Google dev meetups. Quite neat device at its time, with built-in 3D camera mode and stuff, unfortunately LG already abandoned the model some time ago and the last available Android version is ancient Honeycomb and there’s no other custom firmware that is really usable, so it was mostly collecting dust these days as I was not really using the device for long time. But few days ago I wanted to give it away but found it pattern-locked.

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1. Install PHP 5.3.7 or greater
2. Edit php,ini and uncomment proper extension dir settings (for Windows) and then enable openssl extension
3. Ensure you edit right php.ini (check with “php –ini”). Also ensure your final php.ini is in right directory (often C:\Windows)
4. Download and install Composer [link]
5. Download Laravel [link] and unpack to your www root directory
6. open cmd or other shell and cd to your www root dir
7. execute “composer install”
8. Done

While working on some Android projects I faced small issue related to localisation files. Since there’s no built-in mechanism that helps you keep all these files in sync I crafted small PHP command line script to help me keep my translations up to date with english base strings. Since this seems to be common problem for other translators as well, I decided to share my script. Feel free to use it as you want. I do not mind if you credit me anyway

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Using Motorola Milestone? Bored waiting for your carrier to finally push latest Android 2.1 update or your carrier does not even has such plans? Got enough bugs of Android 2.0 Milestone comes with? Or you just one of these who needs top notch stuff right now? No matter what is your reason, you are in the right place – quick and tested upgrade recipie is just along the corner. Read on…

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Where Am I? 1.12 came with some issues which I decided to address instantly. So 1.13 is for those who dislike device crashing while WAI tries to query Bluetooth device and your Palm has BT feature turned off. Also online version checker misbehaved slightly. Please report any issues spotted using comments here.

Where Am I? version 1.12 is out. I decided to change release policy and version 1.12 is the first one which brings all its features to everyone. Yes – it is fully featured. You can now fully test the application, test if all works as you expect and before you decide to place your donation. Sort of side-effect of this move is that on-line version checker and updater will work for each version, not just for demo version as it used to be. Enjoy your summer trips with WAI.

By default, Sony’s PS3 Eye camera does not work under anything beside Playstation 3. Fortunately since its release, a couple of 3rd party drivers were released, theoretically allowing you to use Eye as regular web cam.

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Where Am I? version 1.11 is out, addressing crash issue that was reported to occur on some devices during BT connection problems.

Happy New Year 2009 by the way

PS: We still have couple unhandled donations – but we need your HotsyncID, so please speak up in the comments if you are still received no full featured copy! You may also contact me by email at carlos@wfmh…… Please put tag “WAI” in subject line in case of spam trap hungry.

I’ve received couple of reports that WAI? is behaving incorrectly on devices that come with Google Maps Mobile preinstalled in ROM (mostly Treo 755p, Centro CDMA Sprint etc.). Palm OS allows you to "override" ROM application by installing its newer version in RAM which shaall be called now instead of ROM one. Unfortunately WAI? was not working that way and kept calling ROM GMM no matter of update present in RAM. As you probably have guessed, version 1.10 addresses this problem.

And after a bit of delay here comes new release of Where Am I? utility. Version 1.9 is a minor update and brings (donors’ version only) persistence to GPS readouts, so you can quit WAI and relaunch it and it will remember last coordinates received from your GPS unit with time stamp for reference. Additionally you can find "Cut coords" and "Clear coords" in application "Edit" menu. It also fixes an issue (or annoyance) that made WAI to unconditionally invalidate previous readout (if present) while attempting to get new one, no matter if succeeded or failed. Now, it invalidates it only if there’s new coordinates to replace the old data.

PS: We still have couple unhandled donations – but we need your HotsyncID, so please speak up in the comments if you are still received no full featured copy! You may also contact me by email at carlos@wfmh…… Please put tag "WAI" in subject line in case of spam trap hungry.