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		<title>Creating a custom GWT animation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Lung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GWT allows you to extend the animation class and create your own custom animations. I was reading this post earlier today and decided to take that code a little further and put it all together into a workable GWT project in Eclipse. I used Eclipse 3.6 (Helios) along with the Plug-in for Eclipse using the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tutorial: A working Spring Framework 3.0 example in 5 minutes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Lung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spring Framework has permeated the entire Java ecosystem and has grown to include web frameworks and even integrating into GWT. Today we will use some core Spring functionality. What you need to complete this tutorial: 1. The Java JDK 1.6 2. Eclipse 3.5 or 3.6, older versions will probably work as well. I&#8217;m using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing Google Go on Ubuntu 10.04 and building a simple Web Server</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Lung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Go programming language was introduced a while back and caught a lot of attention and excitement. As the website explains, Go is a simple, fast, concurrent, safe and open source systems programming language. I decided recently to give Go a whirl and installed it on Ubuntu 10.04. Today I&#8217;ll point out a few tips [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Android: A bare bones way to access App Engine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Lung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is day five of my &#8220;five days of Android articles&#8220;. Today I&#8217;m going to modify yesterday&#8217;s example (Android: Using RestClient to communicate with Google App Engine) to access the Google App Engine project via a different way, a little more &#8220;bare bones&#8221; if you will. There is usually more than one way to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Android: Using RestClient to communicate with Google App Engine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Lung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is day four of my &#8220;five days of Android articles&#8220;. I recently stumbled upon RestClient which was created by Luke Lowrey. RestClient really makes calling web services very easy from Android as you can see from Luke&#8217;s article. Today I&#8217;m going to use RestClient to communicate to Google App Engine. The first thing I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Android: Quickly building a menu for an application</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Lung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is day three of my &#8220;five days of Android articles&#8220;. Today I&#8217;m going to focus on menus, the Android website has a good starter tutorial which I&#8217;ll borrow some ideas from. Unfortunately my icons on the menus will not be anything fancy since I&#8217;m not a graphics person so I just punched up a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Android: Using the EditText</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Lung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is day two of my &#8220;five days of Android articles&#8220;. Today I&#8217;ll go over a commonly used widget in the Android SDK &#8211; the EditText. The Android documentation describes the EditText as: &#8220;EditText is a thin veneer over TextView that configures itself to be editable&#8221;. It is a subclass of TextView. First off if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Android: Using the built-in fonts and adding effects</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Lung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first article in my &#8220;five days of Android articles&#8220;. Currently Android has a few built-in fonts that can be easily harnessed in your applications. Today I&#8217;m going to quickly go over how to use these as well as some added effects like creating shadows, bold, italic, colors, etc. I created a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five days of Android articles coming next week!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Lung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next week (Aug. 16-20, 2010) I will be publishing one article per day on the topic of working with Android and creating some projects to learn from. Day 1 is now posted. Day 2 is now posted. Day 3 is now posted. Day 4 is now posted. Day 5 is now posted.]]></description>
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		<title>Android: Displaying a status bar notification message</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Lung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently was asked how to use Notifications for Android. The demo on the Android documentation page is a great start so I wrote a very quick application to demo how to use it. First, I created an Android project called &#8220;AndroidNotifications&#8221;. The code is fairly simple so I&#8217;ll dump it here in it&#8217;s complete [...]]]></description>
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