I’m not entirely sure if there is a bug in CM7 or if my proximity sensor in my Nexus One is cooked but the result is that when I get a call, the screen goes black and I cannot wake it. My only option then is to pull the battery.
The solution is to disable the sensor. To do so, push this file using adb (Android SDK tools) to /data/local. This file basically disables the device by setting it’s permissions to 0.
I hope this helps someone.
If you head over to XMPP Voicemail there is a Google App Engine app written in Python that you can install in your own App Engine instance. The initial goal of the application was to send transcribed voicemail messages from Twilio to your Google Talk account using XMPP. But later functionality was added to allow for SMS messages to be sent to and from a representing Google Talk address.
As a Canadian who still can’t officially get access to Google Voice, this looked like a promising path. With some hackery, it is possible to get pretty well the same functionality but with a minor difference.
I’ve managed to figure out a hack to all of this. I am using the following:
So it’s a fairly complicated affair, one that could be simplified greatly if we Canadians had Google Voice, but alas, we don’t.
To get this working I did the following:
You then give our out your Canadian based Twilio number to friends and family. When they call this number, it will forward to your Google Voice number which will then notify all the numbers you have associated with your Google Voice number. In my case it rings my voip.ms account to which I have my Obihai connected and I also have my Android phone using the simplesid (app), connected to my voip.ms account. So my cell also rings. If you are logged into Google Talk, it will also ring. Note, all of this is done using VOIP. There’s no airtime minutes involved.
The tricky part comes with SMS and this is where xmppvoicemail is required. It creates a bridge between your SMS Twilio number to your Google Talk account.
In terms of functionality, when I get a SMS, the SMS number appears in my GTalk friends list. I am able to reply to this Gtalk “friend” which then forwards to my instance of the xmppvoicemail app which then forwards to Twilio which then forwards to the phone. The same works in reverse. Each SMS number is represented as a Gtalk “friend”.
I know, quite a hack to get something pretty basic but it allowed me to learn a lot about Twilio and the Google App Engine and even some Python.
If you want the gory details on how to install this, drop me a line. It would take a 10 part series to explain it all.
Or, just wait for Google to finally bring Google Voice to Canada. But I suspect implementing the above will take less time. 
I loathe to use 3rd party libraries when I think I can get away with it. I’m a longtime Java programmer and whenever I see the inclusion of another jar into my project, I break out in hives. I know that jar is going to cause me grief later on. Same goes with having to use 3rd party libs in your Qt code. It’ll work great on your machine, but when you have to distribute that binary, that’s where the fun begins. So generally, I try to avoid having to use them.
Which brings me to parsing JSON data in Qt. Qt actually has everything you need without having to resort to using 3rd party libraries.
Here’s a very simple example of some JSON that a server returns me:
{"message":login,"token":"3674c0c303b1a54903b2ede057184896b10972b2ea30138f","status":"success"}"
I need the token for later on. How do I get it ?
First, include the scripting engine in your qmake file:
QT += script
Next, include the header:
#include <QScriptEngine>
Next, the code:
void SomeObject::postLogin(QNetworkReply *reply)
{
if (reply->error() == QNetworkReply::NoError)
{
QString response = reply->readLine();
if(response.contains("token"))
{
QScriptValue sc;
QScriptEngine engine;
sc = engine.evaluate("("+response+")");
if (sc.property("token").isString())
{
token = sc.property("token").toString();
}
}
I think the code is fairly self explanatory and I could probably simplify it greatly but you get the picture.
If you also take a look at the documentation for QScriptValue you will see that it supports arrays, integers, etc. So for most JSON parsing, you can get what you need without having to implement anything else.
I spent Sunday afternoon hacking up the ability to upload your ride from Golden Cheetah into Strava. The patch is here: http://bugs.goldencheetah.org/issues/519
This patch applies against the current master branch but it will be released only when 3.0 comes out. But if you want to use it now, you can by applying the patch and building it yourself.
It supports all GC data including data that isn’t “GPS’d”.
I’ve been to Banff 5 times now and each time I go the scenery leaves me breathless.. (it could be the high altitude too).
This was shot at the top of Sulfur Mountain. Which, after 4 previous visits to Banff never bothered to head to the top. My girlfriend was quite adement about seeing the top and this is what it looks like..
Sulfur Mountain
Moraine Lake is a 20 minute drive from Lake Louise and yet each time I visited Lake Louise, I never bothered to go. It was only after my mom told me she felt Moraine lake was prettier that we trekked up. It was a good 7c cooler here then at Lake Louise but worth the trip.
Moraine Lake
Golden Cheetah can be downloaded here: http://www.goldencheetah.org/download.html
Aerolab
Google Maps
Long Term Metrics
Meta-data
Ride Editor
Performance Manager with TRIMP
Internationalisation
New Logo and Icons
Golden Cheetah
Enhanced Ride Plot
Enhanced Plot
Enhanced Ride Plot
New Devices and File Formats Supported
Numerous enhancements and bug fixes from
Builds, testing and support
Three new features to Golden Cheetah. The first is a MUCH improved zooming feature in the ride plot.
Golden Cheetah Scrolling and Zooming from mark liversedge on Vimeo.
Ride EditorAlso added by Mark is a Ride Editor that allows you to manually edit out those nasty peaks or other outlaying data. This was one of our more requested features. Generally the philosophy is to not try to fix crappy input data but instead allows users to fix it themselves. Trying to fix crappy data is always problematic. So this feature fits in well with GC's generally philosophy regarding user data.
Finally, a little hack of a patch I create. You can now tweet your ride. After choosing which Metrics, GC will tell you the total length of your Tweet and when pressing “Tweet Ride” GC will send your chosen ride metrics with your message and add a #goldencheetah tag. This will allow others to search for GC users via Twitter.
Tweet your Ride