Geek Night 10/27/2010

The TV at the ThoughtWorks Dallas office couldn't get the Rangers game--but we held Geek Night anyway.

• Greg Heartsfield and Jennifer Weingarten -- Demonstration Android App with documentation/unit tests that accesses the buzz capability of the phone.
• Lejo and Michael Perry -- Porting Correspondence to Windows Phone 7.
• Paul Hammant and Richard Jensen-- Fixed a problem in JBehave with large numerical values (conversion to BigDecimal) accounting for different locales (thousands separator, radix point).
• Srini Raguraman and Jason Johnson -- Worked on an RSS feed reader for tracking github commits.
• Yujun Liang was present for a short while and described a problem--but no one picked it up when he left.
• Bill Schofield was also present for a short while discussing programming/software practices with Jim Plamondon.

Geek Night 10/20/2010

We had twelve hardy open-sourcers this evening.
If you've seen any of my previous session reports a lot will look familiar.

Android support in IntelliJ CE

I haven't done any iPhone or Android development.

I have downloaded XCode, but since I'm becoming partial to IntelliJ, I'm interested in this announcement. I still don't have a smart phone. Is a droid possibly in my future?

IntelliJ shortcut wallpaper

Available here in 1680x1050 or 1440x900.