android application launcher

Got bored with HTC sense and found GO Launcher EX for android.

It is one of the most beautiful launchers for android I've ever seen. The default interface makes Android UI to an iPhone. If you're not happy with the default, you can easily customize it. There are 17 different desktop transition effect that you can choose from for example.

Check it out at
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gau.go.launcherex&hl=en

jruby gem dependencies for rails 3.1.1

Could not find a JavaScript runtime. See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs for a list of available runtimes. (ExecJS::RuntimeUnavailable)

add to Gemfile.rb
gem 'execjs'
gem 'therubyrhino'

getting around the great chinese firewall

The easiest way to get around the Great Firewall is to use TOR. However TOR can be slow. The best way is to run your own http proxy and tunneling traffic encrypted through SSH.


Mac/Linux/Unix distributions usually already have an ssh client installed.
Create the ssh tunnel to the proxy server using the following command line:
% ssh -C username@server -L 8080:localhost:8000

Once you've successfully logged in, start a proxy server:
% ./proxy.py

You will see something like:

Any clients will be served...
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...

Next configure your web browser to use the proxy server which is browser dependent. Google on how to do this. You will need to configure your web browser to use "localhost" and port "8080" for the proxy server host and port.

grails tomcat plugin sym links

create scripts/Event.groovy:

eventConfigureTomcat = {tomcat ->
def ctx = tomcat.host.findChild(serverContextPath)
ctx.allowLinking = true
}

However when grails.app.context = "/", this doesn't work because the TomcatServer.groovy replaces "/" with ""


therefore, must change tomcat.host.findChild(serverContextPath) to tomcat.host.findChild("")

dojo build script

cp ~/sync/workspace/fulicious/fulicious.profile.js profiles/;./build.sh profile=fulicious action=clean,release releaseName=fulicious-dojo

x11vnc gdm

x11vnc -display :0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth

GeoPoint -> screen pixel

// Convert geo coordinates to screen pixels
Point screenPoint = new Point();
mapView.getProjection().toPixels(geoPoint, screenPoint);