Before I completely delete this code from my current Android application, I want to make a copy of it here. It was intended to show a series of quotes (text phrases) in a “Grid” (GridView), but (a) I never got it working as desired, and (b) I decided I didn’t want it in my application anyway.
Here’s the source code for the Java controller/fragment class:
As a short note to self, I drove back from Santa Fe, New Mexico to the Boulder, Colorado area yesterday on Route 285. Amazing, 285 runs right from the front door of the hotel I stay at in Santa Fe almost right to Golden, Colorado, so the drive is Route 285 north to Route 6 north in Colorado, and then onto Route 93 to Boulder.
This is just a tad bit late for Christmas, but after driving through the snow-covered mountains of Colorado yesterday, it feels a bit like Christmas this morning. (The image comes from Tundra Comics.)
I don’t know the original source of this image, but a friend posted it on Google+.
I’ve read this statistic several times, and it’s shocking every time I see it.
Filed under “What I learned about Android today,” it turns out that you can display an HTML string in an Android TextView. However, this approach has major limitations, and you’ll probably want to display your HTML in a WebView instead.
Skipping past that issue for a few moments ... if you want to try to display an HTML string in a TextView, you need to use the Android Html.fromHtml() method, as shown in this code:
I just read that there is land available about 23 miles south of Socorro, New Mexico for about $700/acre. That’s incredibly low to me, as land costs about $20,000/acre in rural Kentucky, and is much, much higher than that in Boulder, Colorado. The image shown comes from this website, which is selling the land.
Cubs manager Joe Maddon talks about managing pitcher Kyle Hendricks. His style is 180 degrees opposite of a guy like football coach Chip Kelly, who seems to want to control everything. (Image from the Chicago Tribune.)
“What is past is prologue.” An entrance to a government records building in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Dallas Seavey won the 2015 Iditarod race in Alaska, finishing the race at about four o’clock this morning in Fairbanks. He finished the race in eight days, 18 hours, 13 minutes and six seconds. The story is here at the Fairbanks News-Miner.
Here’s some source code that shows how to add an Android OnClickListener to a CheckBox:
Do women run in the Iditarod? Yes, they do. When I took this snapshot back in 2015, seven of the top twenty mushers (racers) in that Iditarod race were women.
Net Neutrality explained by a nine year old child. From this Reddit page.
