Software-Development

Settings.canDrawOverlays() always returns false on Android O

2017-12-28 ·2 min read

Work around Settings.canDrawOverlays() returning false after permission is granted on Android O by testing a temporary invisible overlay.

2016-10-12 ·1 min read

Improve NetBeans font rendering on Gentoo Linux by enabling Swing antialiasing and configuring the look and feel in netbeans.conf.

2016-07-04 ·1 min read

Truncate MySQL tables with foreign key constraints by dropping and recreating constraints or temporarily disabling FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS.

2016-05-13 ·1 min read

Fix TortoiseGit’s publickey authentication error by converting an SSH private key to PPK format with PuTTYgen and loading it into Pageant.

2016-01-26 ·3 min read

Explore BIOS interrupts 11h and 12h with SINFO.EXE, a Turbo C and inline assembly program that reports hardware details on a PC XT clone.

2016-01-17 ·1 min read

Display Android Studio’s debug certificate fingerprints on Windows using keytool and a batch file that reads the default debug keystore.

2015-05-19 ·1 min read

Restore keyboard shortcuts with non-Latin layouts in older Eclipse versions on GNU/Linux by building and using eclipse-hotkeys-fix.

2015-05-18 ·1 min read

Set the framebuffer console resolution with proprietary NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu, Debian, or Linux Mint using GRUB 2 graphics settings.

2014-07-18 ·1 min read

Work around Eclipse ADT hanging on 'Building workspace' at startup by terminating running adb processes and restarting the IDE.

2012-08-31 ·2 min read

Convert Win32 error codes into readable messages with CLastError, an MFC helper class using FormatMessage and AfxMessageBox.