Programming

Comparing Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Duckduckgo Search Engines

Beren Erchamion
August 18, 2012

Starting in about June I noticed an interesting trend in my traffic – search hits and traffic from google.com tumbled to 0 – no kidding 0. Now I don’t get tons of traffic in the first place, but I get…

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Performance Tuning a Hosted WordPress Blog

Beren Erchamion
August 12, 2012

So you got a hosted WordPress blog and you’re not 100% happy with performance. Even worse you signed a 2 year deal to get a good rate. Now what? Ugh! D’oh! Or use whatever colorful metaphor you would like. Here’s…

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Android

Android Layouts and UI Design

Beren Erchamion
August 1, 2012

Ok – it was a PITA to deal with a few layout issues on my last project that obviously I’m ignorant about how to properly do this with layouts in Android. Time to focus and get it right. Since I’m…

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Location Services and GPS on Android

Beren Erchamion
July 30, 2012

Its fun to play around with the cool devices in your phone. ADK makes this kind of stuff easy and fun, but there are quite a few steps to get an app to use the devices. Let’s put all the…

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Graphics, UI, and Fun with Appcelerator ATS

Beren Erchamion
July 24, 2012

In my previous posts I’ve looked at getting started and then at the basics of UI, events, and some side notes on the practical side of working with Android devices: In this post I’ll bite the bullet and pull out…

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Tarn Aeluin Turns 1 Year Old

Beren Erchamion
July 21, 2012

Its been a year now since I moved from wordpress.com to my own hosted site. In many ways it has been pretty easy to do this, but there’s a lot it. So read on if you are pondering this kind…

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