Lessons learned : Appcelerator

A couple of points learnt while writing an Android application using the excellent titanium appcelerator. Determining intent type: var intentType=Ti.Android.currentActivity.getIntent().getType(); intentType will then hold strings such as: 'android.intent.action.MAIN': an application has been opened directly, not via a share or view intent 'android.intent.action.SEND': also known as the share intent, since this is the action that gets broadcast when a … Continue reading Lessons learned : Appcelerator

Nugget Post: Python Flask framework and multiprocessing

When using the excellent Flask framework in conjunction with the python multiprocessing module , you may notice that the inbuilt Flask webserver will try to start up twice, leaving you with two webserver processing, each trying to bind to the same port. Needless to say this results in unexpected errors. Apparently this is a problem with … Continue reading Nugget Post: Python Flask framework and multiprocessing