I’ve been doing a variety of things lately:

Playing with Android
I got the “Hello Android” beta book from Pragmatic Programmers — I am trying to remember its beta but its sort of hard to follow. Be prepared to download the source code for the book and compare to what the book has to see what is missing, so you can get your thing to run. I am going to look at some other tutorials at the moment to get more familiar. Maybe the author assumes the reader knows more than me! Which is possible since I haven’t done much java programming.

Wordpress 2.5.1 and EngineYard
The DevChix.com blog is a wordpress blog and hosted at DreamHost. We got a free slice for DevChix from the kind folks at EngineYard. They were nice enough to set it all up for us with wordpress and giving us a deploy.rb file ready to go! Their support is pretty fast too and I was able to get some help from the irc chat as well. The new wordpress has some neat features and looks nicer. I want to install a captcha though for blog comments, even with Akesmet I get tired of sorting through them! I was able to get all our plugins installed and seems good.

Playing with App Engine
I worked on this last week while on an airplane. I wasn’t sure it would work offline — but it did. Even the database…err..yeah whatever it is. I was able to add data ..but where is that data?

Django your mango
Yes, been checking it by doing the bundled tutorials. I haven’t gotten back to it since my last post. Need to get back to it before I forget what I was doing. haha.

Git ‘er done
Finally, I am going to learn git and try it on a project with a friend. I am hoping it proves useful since I often code on the go with no internet access. I sometimes have to do a poor mans cvs and save things as myfile1.rb myfile2.rb to try out things and then able able to “go back”. Rock and roll.