After a more-than-four-year hiatus, I have decided to start blogging again, this time hopefully, I will do more than one post per month, and hopefully this blog will be very helpful to both Android and iOS developers. That's right, in the time that I have been silent, I have moved from web development and JavaME/BB legacy development to full-time Android and iOS development. So here goes...

NB: This quick tip is written for Android Studio 2.0.

Using a custom font in Android is as simple as sett...
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Been a while since I posted (that's an understatement), and I figured I should start again. I will try to be more consistent this time. I am currently working on BlackBerry projects and would like to share any interesting stuff that I discover through this blog. Hopefully someone will bump into it in a time of need.

While developing BlackBerry applications you may come across this error message:

I/O Error: Cannot run program "jar": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specifie...
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Good news!

Google Chrome Beta is now available on Linux! Coming in at a neat 12MB download, the .deb package that I downloaded was a snap to install from my Kubuntu Hardy 8.04.3 after clicking. There are also rpm and .sh for Red Hat-based and other Linux distros out there. So far I'm happy with Chrome's performance on Linux, but my favourite browser is still Mozilla Firefox, but I must say that Chrome's developer tools are worth having a look at. 

You can get yourself a copy at http://www.googl...
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Tip #3 - Configuring a Kohana website/application


0. Download Kohana from the Kohana website: http://www.kohanaphp.com/download.
1. Extract the downloaded into a directory accessible to your web server (let's say Your_DocumentRoot_Directory/k for the purposes of this tutorial)
2. Ensure that your web server has read/write/execute access to all files within your Kohana directory (k). If you are on Linux, you may need to do something to this effect: chmod -R 777 Your_DocumentRoot_Directory/k, e.g ...
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Background

So I decided to learn Java ME development. And I came across a blog called - well what do you know - the Java ME Blog, over at http://www.javameblog.com/.  Using the info on this blog along with what I found on the awesome java.net (http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/02/09/j2me1.html), I was able to write a small MIDlet, and build it. Ah, now to run it... Not so fast; I kept getting an error message along these lines:

Starting emulator in execution mode
java.io.IOException: java.i...
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