Hi! I'm a Toronto-based software engineer, product guy, and all around computer person. I like working on products used by millions of people. I've been doing a lot of mobile development lately.
August 31st, 2009, by alex
Android - binding to the Music app service to find currently playing song
For an Android app I’m working on I need to find out what song, if any, is playing in the background on the device. Turns out there’s no documented way to do this on Android - but it also turns out that using an open source platform is great. After a few hours [...]
April 22nd, 2009, by alex
Using the Google Analytics API - getting total number of page views
At long last, Google released the Google Analytics API. The timing couldn’t be better, since I was just trying to get to some information through screen scraping… which is never fun.
The API is pretty easy to use, and other than a typo which slowed me down way too much, it didn’t take long to write [...]