For the last few days I have been spending my free time working on a Magento – Android application, that will hopefully soon seen the light of day. Visual part of application is essential to its success. With that in mind I am/was determined to give my best to style the app best to my skills (although pro developer now, few years ago I was doing graphical...

For various reasons one might need to screenshot his Android application. Taking a screenshot of application both in emulator and real device in Android is extremely easy. To be honest it took me a while to spot the screenshot feature in the Eclipse (mainly cause I never needed it before). Step (1) you run your application in the debug mode by right clicking...

If you are starting Android phone development (not exactly sure this is the right terminology) one of the first things you will most likely want to do is to connect your Android powered phone to Eclipse. Prime reason for this would surely be the debugging. On top of that additional bonus might be the screen-shooting your or other people applications. To make it...

Yesterday I got my hands on printed edition of “The Definitive Guide to Magento by Adam McCombs and Robert Banh” book. Our company purchased it among other few books. When it comes to IT books I am mostly skeptical, cause rarely they manage to fill in even the “a bit more advanced” sections. Given the fact that this book is all about...

Recently I bought myself a brand new 18.4 Toshiba Satellite laptop. Given the job I work on, one of the first things for me was to setup my self a web server so I can work my magic on Magento related project. At the moment I am running Windows 7 Home Premium on my laptop, so I figured why not try installing Zend Server CE (5.0.2, latest as of time of this...