This post is the second part of my series on XBMC plugin development. In Part 1 — Documentation and tools I discussed the documentation and tools necessary to get started. If you haven’t read that, I suggest to do so. In this installment I will go over the steps of importing a simple example project [...]
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Developing an XBMC plugin — Part 2: The anatomy of an XBMC plugin
Posted by Zsolt on 2010/09/26
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Developing an XBMC plugin — Part 1: Documentation and tools
Posted by Zsolt on 2010/09/19
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Being a fan of the XBMC cross-platform media center application — which can be extended with Python scripts — and the SoundCloud music sharing website — which exposes a nicely designed RESTful API — I decided to develop a music plugin for XBMC to access music shared on SoundCloud.
How to load and compare arbitrary XML files with EMF
Posted by Zsolt on 2010/08/01
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In this article I will show you how to load an arbitrary XML file — provided you have the schema for it — into EMF, without generating any additional artifacts.
Great news for Android and Maven fans
Posted by Zsolt on 2010/07/09
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Although the official Android SDK caters for most needs of Android developers, it seems that the Android community is willing to improve the existing tools to suit their taste. A prime example of this is the m2eclipse Android integration and the addition of Android artifacts to the Maven Central repository (see Jason van Zyl’s post [...]
Android and OSGi
Posted by Zsolt on 2010/07/07
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It’s official: I *want* an Android phone. I’ve spent quite some time eyeballing the most recently released ones, but haven’t made up my mind yet. One of my colleagues got an HTC Desire recently, so I will wait a bit and see how well it works for him. His biggest gripe so far – in [...]
Venturing beyond Java
Posted by Zsolt on 2010/06/18
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Lately I’ve been thinking about doing something a bit adventurous: venturing into the land of the “cool” programming languages. I really like programming in Java. However, after all the time I spent learning various aspects of the language itself and numerous useful third-party libraries, I would like to broaden my horizons. After looking around on [...]
Unofficial Eclipse client for StackOverflow.com
Posted by Zsolt on 2010/06/13
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A few weeks ago I gave a quick demo of the new RESTful capabilities of the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) at the Eclipse Helios DemoCamp in Budapest.
