Johan de Koning

Hummm… XMPP and WCF? Is this not a blog page about Android or other Google related stuff. That’s partly true but as a Microsoft .Net developer I am more interested in combining the best of both world. I like Google and Microsoft products. I really like the open source vision of Google. But when it comes [...]

Today (or yesterday late) I started download and building the source of Chromium OS again. As a described inside my blog and at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-os-discuss/browse_thread/thread/ba8ddf13edece9a6/647d2632e8c2d615?lnk=raot I got a blue gradient screen after login.
One of the reponse of this post said something about the different version of the gtk library which are used http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=676 Ubuntu 9.10 makes [...]

Note: for my first build I used Ubuntu 9.10. It looks like there are some issues with using this version so for my second build I am using Ubuntu 9.04. Some of the part of this blogpos became obsolete because those issues don’t exists anymore. I marked those part as red. When updating this blog [...]

Note 30 july 2009: updated the post. It now reflects the changes made to the repository (dream is now called dream-open)
Note 13 july 2009: Vladimir Stepanov post a reply today, telling me that the media files are already part of the source tree and can be found at ~/mydroid/fameworks/base/data/sounds. Adding the media files is a [...]

With the Android 1.1 and Android 1.5 images for the Android Dev Phone 1 (ADP1), Google Latitude is not available by default. It is possible to enable Latitude inside the Google Maps application by adding one record to a settings database.
At http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3438480#post3438480 there are several steps described to enable Latitude. Adding a record to a [...]

Compiling the source code for creating your own Android build is not supported within a Windows operating system (I don’t know if it is possible by the use of Cygwin). Because my notebook is running Windows XP, I use VMWare Server 2.0 which runs a Ubuntu 8.10 (Desktop) as virtual machine.
VMWare makes it possible [...]

De Nederlandse Spoorwegen heeft sinds enkele maanden een mobile website (http://m.ns.nl) waarmee je een reis kunt plannen maar ook de actuele vertrektijden kan opvragen van treinen die vanaf een bepaald station vertrekken. Handig om op je mobiel te kijken of de trein vertraging heeft.
Een nadeel van een mobiele telefoon vind ik persoonlijk dat het intypen [...]

I really like the Google Docs application. Working together with a team on a spreadsheet is really useful for status overviews. Love to see that this is working without browser plugins. I was really surprised to see the direct updates when a colleague was editing a cell of the shared spreadsheet.
Working together with web based [...]