Lifecode http://ruel.me/blog The best things in life, are those you worked hard for. Fri, 17 May 2013 00:36:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Android and CLI http://ruel.me/blog/2013/05/17/android-and-cli/ http://ruel.me/blog/2013/05/17/android-and-cli/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 00:36:37 +0000 Ruel http://ruel.me/blog/?p=524 Yesterday our training involved Android together with the command line interface. There’s not much chat, but overall, I can say that IDEs are optional. Really, I’m considering using command line on (almost) all my development environments.

I’ve learned android over a year ago, and it was just yesterday when I … Read More

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]]> http://ruel.me/blog/2013/04/22/professional-career/feed/ 0 Mind and Motivation http://ruel.me/blog/2013/04/02/mind-and-motivation/ http://ruel.me/blog/2013/04/02/mind-and-motivation/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:32:53 +0000 Ruel http://ruel.me/blog/?p=493 It’s rather easy to follow a patter of procrastination excuses than finish your simple task. That’s what I have realized just about the past moments of my life, all of it. It doesn’t quite satisfy me in the long run, but hey, i’ll be work free today.

This behavior … Read More

]]> http://ruel.me/blog/2013/04/02/mind-and-motivation/feed/ 0 Reviving Upscreen – A Screenshot Utility http://ruel.me/blog/2012/07/19/reviving-upscreen-a-screenshot-utility-using-the-imgur-api/ http://ruel.me/blog/2012/07/19/reviving-upscreen-a-screenshot-utility-using-the-imgur-api/#comments Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:41:02 +0000 Ruel http://ruel.me/blog/?p=473 Not so long ago, I started Upscreen for Min.us API. I used C++ with minimal 3rd party libraries, and got it working for few weeks. But then it became unstable and I didn’t have the time to update it (my apologies). So now, I revived the project and used imgur … Read More

]]> http://ruel.me/blog/2012/07/19/reviving-upscreen-a-screenshot-utility-using-the-imgur-api/feed/ 2 Committing Sensitive Data http://ruel.me/blog/2012/07/18/committing-sensitive-data/ http://ruel.me/blog/2012/07/18/committing-sensitive-data/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:49:01 +0000 Ruel http://ruel.me/blog/?p=471 I spent the whole night trying to figure out how to revert commits, and remove my sensitive information from my public repositories. This helped me realized how important it is to learn and practice git.

I mostly do open source projects on C#, and I always put to-change data … Read More

]]> http://ruel.me/blog/2012/07/18/committing-sensitive-data/feed/ 2 Extending SMS Capabilities http://ruel.me/blog/2012/07/16/extending-sms-capabilities/ http://ruel.me/blog/2012/07/16/extending-sms-capabilities/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:26:00 +0000 Ruel http://ruel.me/blog/?p=467 I live in a place where wireless access points are few, mobile internet is expensive, but SMS is unlimited. Of course, I use SMS for communicating with my friends, family, girlfriend, colleagues, and for business. Then, one day it came to my mind, why not communicate with my personal computer?… Read More

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So what exactly happened?

Mainly, there has been an issue with the function ParseAlbumUrl. If you want … Read More

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Hooray for the new post. This post was actually a draft way back 2011. But hopefully, i’ll be motivated and keep on posting. I have many tricks to share!

Several years ago, me and my mates were having fun writing prank codes. I can barely remember them all, but here’s … Read More

]]> http://ruel.me/blog/2012/07/07/mouse-prank-in-cpp/feed/ 3 Basic Threading in C# http://ruel.me/blog/2011/10/26/basic-threading-in-csharp/ http://ruel.me/blog/2011/10/26/basic-threading-in-csharp/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:12:57 +0000 Ruel http://ruel.me/blog/?p=447 Threading is a great way to make your application smoother. A single thread in a C# application, is an independent execution path that can run simultaneously with the main application thread. Of course, C# supports multithreading. And to use the threading namespace, you can directly call it from System.Threading… Read More

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