Video Playback on Android 2

After my first post on the subject I got the tip for a better, cleaner and faster encoder.

Kudos to Henk and Todd for the tip!

For the complete story on how to play your own video’s on android:

Install Jeff Hamilton’s ‘Video Player’ from the market…

PHP Strings ‘ vs “

It’s wideley known that PHP supports both ‘ (single quote) and ” (double qoute) for string delimiting.
It’s also widely known that PHP evaluates the DQ (Double Quote) Strings and replaces variables with their actual value…

Video Playback on Android

UPDATE:There is a new post on this subject here:
http://skypher.com/index.php/2010/05/21/video-playback-on-android-2/

Since a couple of months I have a new Android Phone…

String concatenation vs. Array joins

I’ve read several websites which claim that string concatenation is outperformed by array joining in PHP. I know from firsthand that this certainly is a fact in ASP. And it’s considered a ‘best practice’ in Javascript and probably several other languages. But PHP has always been a bit different on some parts, so I decided to test this and came to some interesting conclusions.

Google Enhancements

I’ve updated my userscripts for Google with Greasemonkey.

Google Instant Type

I added the Classic homepage to the list where it should add the buttons…

Function list for PHP

Jens Lorenz’ function list plugin is a very handy tool!

After installation, there are a few things you need to customize…

Notepad++ 5.0

Notepad++ released 5.0 some time ago, and recently a rebuffed version. It’s looking good!

I have some small adjustments for myself and maybe for you.

[ctrl]+[enter] now opens the function suggest by default which was the QuickText Replacer…

Vista Broke

My vista managed to screw up big time yesterday, as it tried to install SP1, for the 7th time I think..

I can’t boot and am looking for an external DVD drive to reinstall everything. So devving is moved back a bit..

[update 14/07]

I managed to reinstall everything….

Imagine Cup ends.

Yesterday we had an amazing party in some catacombs under a bridge (RHCP hurray). It was a lovely scene with the old games we all know, donkey kong, space invaders and good ol’ pacman…

Imagine Cup Day ??

I lost count, I think day 6. The finalists were announced today and the fact that next years’ competition is in Egypt!..