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I’m getting along pretty nicely with my first PhoneGap-app for iPhone/iPad/Android. Just thought that I should share a few screenshots of the first view on the targeted devices. It works pretty well on the iPhone and in the Android emulator though it really shines on the iPad. The Android version should be ready for release pretty soon (via PhoneGap Build if I just can find the time to polish it a bit more whilst the iOS-versions will have to wait a bit (I have a functional build environment setup on my iMac though I haven’t enrolled as a developer yet).

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I just got an email with a signup key to join the beta of PhoneGapBuild! For those who doesn’t know what PhoneGap is; It’s a really sweet wrapper application that let you build advanced mobile applications for iOS, Android, webOS and more using html/css/js. I’m currently building a small app for Någonting Större mainly aimed at the iPhone but with the idea to someday compile it for Android aswell. With PhoneGapBuild that part just turned really easy. I zipped my contents, uploaded the zip-file, waited a few minutes and then I could download my app for Android aswell!

When my app(s) are ready I’ll be sure to post a note here (and for Android, a download link) so stay tuned!

More info about PhoneGapBuild (and a form to apply for the beta) can be found at http://build.phonegap.com/. More information about PhoneGap is available at http://www.phonegap.com/

Just got a new monitor here at work, a really sweet 24″ Samsung, which came with a few really annoying application. The applications does the usual stuff, allow you to change gamma and color hues etc. but they also allow me to rotate my screen 0, 90, 180 or 270 degrees. A really sweet function if you happen want to rotate your monitor for some reason. The developers also thought that people would like to do this really often and therefore included a contextmenu extension to allow you to rotate your screen by rightclicking on a folder background or on your desktop.

I can’t really see how many people that will have any use of this particular feature but I sure don’t need it. It also seems to be poorly coded since it can conflict with other extensions (in my case TortoiseSVN, see this post for more information).

So how can we avoid this problem? The someone on the TortoiseSVN mailing list suggested that we simply remove the icons from the TortoiseSVN contextmenu which solved the problem easily. Open regedit and go to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TortoiseSVN” and add a new DWORD named “ShowContextmenuIcons” with a value of 0 and you are done, the changes should be in effect immediately.

Another solution that feels a lot better if you ask me though is to get rid of the horrible MagicRotate extension. To do this we open regedit and navigate to the “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers” key. The subkeys/folders shown under this key represents the contextmenus currently registered. If you as me have TortoiseSVN installed you will see a key named TortoiseSVN there. If you have Samsung MagicRotate installed you will see a key named SimpleBkgndExtension (google the name and you will find a reference to “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing Shell Extensions” ). The easy way from here is to just remove the key SimpleBkgndExtension and it won’t show up any more.

I just got around to publish my latest project. It’s a site for a christian festival/conference called Någonting Större (Something Greater or Something Larger in English). It has taken a while but it turned out really great (mainly because I didn’t have to do to much work with the design) and hopefully many other great things will come out of the codebase (called BeaverSite, a CMS built with ASP.Net MVC which works GREAT!). A lot of code in this project is also shared with other projects such as BeaverShop and Imager Gallery.Net which both speed up this project and at the same time progressed the others. You can see the page in its full glory at http://www.någontingstörre.se/.