Garbage Collector

tales from an old nibble


Sticking to 1Password 6

I loved 1Password since the first time I installed it many years ago. I probably got in some OSX Indy developer bundle …

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Build TestDPC with bazel 5.3

Some personal notes on how to build in 2022 TestDPC with Bazel 5.3

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Moving to github actions to publish the blog

This blog started locally on my machine a long time ago, when I was mainly using a single computer. Nowadays I work with …

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Updated Trackpad firmware for Pinebook Pro

The beauty of the Pinebook Pro is that it is a tinkering machine. This article covers briefly an update made available …

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Android Screen Capture for dual screen devices

From problem to solution and to lazy automation, how to easily capture screenshots on a dual screen device.

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April 2021 Programming notes

Summary of interesting topics and articles explored in April 2021.

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Reading Notes - CorkScrew Solutions

CorkScrew Solutions - Problem Solving With a TWIST - by Clarke Ching.
An opinionated note-taking session with an …

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Reading Notes - Think Again

Think Again - the Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant.
An opinionated note-taking session with an …

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Boox Max 3 as a Raspberry Pi monitor

Boox Max 3 can be used as a HDMI monitor, let’s see how to configure RaspberryPiOS to use this eInk panel as a …

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Enterprise Browser - Using the Android Headset as a Barcode Trigger

What if… you want to use a Zebra’s Android device mounted on an arm-wrist and you want to control the …

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(Xamarin.Forms + FreshMVVM + DataWedge) take 2

We’re going to review the code presented in the last post to add some more functionalities and make it a bit more …

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Xamarin.Forms + FreshMVVM + DataWedge = 💖

Xamarin Forms is getting traction with Zebra’s Partners and End-Users and a light framework like FreshMVVM looks …

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Xamarin.Forms + FreshMVVM for enterprise applications

Xamarin Forms is getting traction with Zebra’s Partners and End-Users and a light framework like FreshMVVM looks …

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Zebra's EMDK Async Profile Manager APIs

A step-by-step introduction to the Async version of the Zebra’s EMDK for Android APIs to process Mx profiles.

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Here be Dragons - The Enterprise Mobile Security Journey

This blog started out as a series of notes for a talk I’ve presented in April 2018 at a couple of events (Droidcon …

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Enterprise Browser - Modernizing web applications

Enterprise Browser allows to create shortcuts to different Config.xml so the user can access them using a different icon …

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Android Auto testing

I got a new car this summer that supports Android Auto, some apps I use on my phone works out of the box, others …

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Tips on how to demo Android devices

My work requires to demo a feature or a particular application on a mobile device while showing the actual device screen …

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droidcon Berlin 2017 Day 0 - the best Android community event!

3rd-6th September, droidcon Berlin 2017 took place at Berline Messe. This is the center of the droidcon community and …

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Using Android `sdk.dir` property to locate EMDK's jar Library.

Obsolete - My personal preference is to reference Zebra’s EMDK jar library in gradle’s dependencies, and …

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Toggling MC18 Navigation (and Status) Bar visible state

On Zebra MC18 with Android, it’s possible to toggle the NavBar visible status with a XML configuration …

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Enterprise Browser and DataWedge on Android - friends at the end

Enterprise Browser 1.4, out of the box, disable DataWedge on Android to be able to fully control the barcode scanner. …

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Disabling Home Button on Zebra Android devices

Mx v4.3 introduce includes a feature in the OS that allows to disable the Home Button using Mx through the EMDK or …

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Managing Display AutoRotation from StageNow

Obsolete - Zebra Technologies’ StageNow is a powerful tool that allows to easily stage a lot of the parameters …

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Disabling MC40 Home Button with a custom intent

MC40 with Android v4.1 and v4.4 includes a feature in the OS that allows to disable the Home Button through an Intent.

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Secondary External Storage in Android KitKat - Part 1

Obsolete - New rules control Android v4.4 Secondary External Storage, here’s what you need to know.

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Welcome

A quick, uninformative, post on the new platform I’m going to use in 2016 to write content on this site.

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Building Zebra's EMDK project using SDK Platform 23

Obsolete - How-To guide on how to build an Android application using the latest SDK Platform and Zebra …

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Android Back Button and Enterprise Browser

Obsolete - How to intercept the Back Button when using Zebra’s Enterprise Browser on Android devices.

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Finding the SDCard Path on Android devices

Obsolete - Finding the real SDCard path in Android v4.1 JellyBean can be tricky. Let see how we can do it on a TC55.

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Getting device info from MSI Android devices

Obsolete - How to use the standard Android SDK to retrieve information about the device the app is running on.

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Rhodes 5.0.2 and Visual Studio 2008 Localized edition

Obsolete - Quick post on the Joy of localized Visual Studio.

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Configuring RhoMobile Suite v5.0 on a clean OS X Mavericks machine

Obsolete - Step by step guide on how to install RhoMobile Studio v5.0 on a clean OS X Mavericks machine

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Little command line tricks

More than a blog this is a note to self. Don’t forget this little tricks!

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Diving into Android source code

Why Not? One of the beauty working on an open source OS is to be able to look into the source code to understand how it …

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2014 New Year resolutions

Looking forwards to what I’d like to build in 2014.

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2013 in numbers

Looking back at what happened in 2013.

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Rhodes tips & tricks

Collection of rhodes tips and tricks. More for the people that manage rhodes than who’s only looking for info on …

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Ruby Version Manager (aka RVM) the Swiss army knife of Ruby versions

Obsolete - Ruby is such a nice language that having a single version on you computer is not enough!

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Why I like to talk about open source projects

About the beauty of open source and the superiority of source code vs (bad) documentation.

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