Android FAQ: What does the Android isScrollContainer XML setting do?
From the Android docs:
Set this if the view will serve as a scrolling container, meaning that it can be resized to shrink its overall window so that there will be space for an input method. If not set, the default value will be true if “scrollbars” has the vertical scrollbar set, else it will be false.
Android FAQ: Where should the ’assets’ directory be when using Android Studio?
Solution: If you want to include an assets folder in your project when using Android Studio, create the folder as src/main/assets, i.e., as an assets folder under src/main.
You can later open files in the assets folder using code like this:
InputStream is = getBaseContext().getAssets().open(relativeFilename);
where relativeFilename is the name of your file, like foo.jpg.
If it’s March Madness it must be time for Rick Pitino vs Tom Izzo. As I wrote a few days ago, I used to live in Kentucky, so I know a lot of Rick Pitino as a coach. Over the last few years I’ve grudgingly become an admirer of Tom Izzo, primarily because his teams are so tough and he doesn’t rely on the “one and done” philosophy.
I learned about SoundSelf at the 2014 Buddhist Geeks Conference. Unfortunately I didn’t take the time to experience it myself, but the people I know who tried it were blown away by it. It’s a meditation/trance video “game” based on the Oculus Rift platform.
This pictorial shows a series of images where a man is working on a project to use a Tesla battery pack custom to power an “off-grid solar power setup.” After reviewing the images, follow the link in the first paragraph of the pictorial to learn more about what he’s doing.
dwell magazine is my favorite magazine about houses and home design. They have a lot of good articles about modern architecture, cool prefab homes, energy efficiency, and much more.
I think the actual phrase is, “Take time to smell the roses,” but this will have to do. (Sorry, I don’t know the original source of this image.)
The image shows two funny signs from a video about a custom knife shop in Alaska.
I saw this image of an LC4 chaise lounge in a design book when I was in Santa Fe last week, and thought it was cool. The entire seating/laying area moves, so you can elevate your legs above your head. For someone like me who has had two operations on both legs, that’s very cool.
In the areas where Colorado has a lot of mountains, it has a lot of mountains, and it’s really beautiful. In the places where there are no mountains, it’s very flat. I took this photo from the top floor of the garage at the apartment complex where I currently live, and you can see the flatness.
Although you have to sign up to Seeking Alpha to see this article, it makes an interesting point: Apple has been buying back their stock at the rate of 4-6% per year. So, even if their revenue and/or earnings were flat, their stock price should rise by that amount each year.
