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Submitted on a message board at work. "I reached out to [XXX] last week and he suggested I post to this group and introduce myself. I am a long term [XYZ] employee (16+years with [XYZ]and one of it's acquired companies). I am primarily a hydrogeologist/water resources engineer but I have quite a bit of computer experience. I am trying to branch out a bit into programming and application development. I have HTML, C, Fortran, and Python programming experience and I am working on online Java and JavaScript courses. I was just last semester accepted into the PhD Computer Science program at [US College] here in [US City] and I am taking quite a few classes to get up to speed since my BS and MS degrees are in geology and mineral engineering."

I use a streaming service. For the amount I would spend on cd's or mp3s, I think its the cheapest alternative. I still have hundreds of cds and lps from decades ago and I'm not sure if I'll ever bother to convert them.

I basically had the exact same experience, just add a few more distos to the tried list. Even had a spare laptop and installed them right to hardware. Now I'm running Mint in Dual boot, and only use Windows for games. Mint is my daily machine. I even have VMware workstation on my Linux host and run a Win VM for .NET programming.

Wow, both are still updating

I must be a real glutton for punishment. Just decided to update Android Studio as well... ugh Time to open up Atom

another hour wasted

The good thing about procrastination is that it always gives you something to do later.

Yes, it is used... actually quite a bit. Generally, not by developers, but by users. It is used in commercial software (e.g. gINT) Should you use it? Probably not. Should gINT use it? Probably not. When should you use it? If you have to give a database to a non-programmer who has Access installed on their machine or some other rare use case where is makes sense. I've actually use (yes present tense) an Access front end to process some SQLite files and it does what I need no fuss no muss.

As long as the clock projects don't make their way to school ;P

The starter kit it cool, but it can become a bit boring after a while. After owning a few kits this one is my favorite: Tracked Dev Kit Originally I bought This one but purchased the additional items separately. I also have a bunch of NetDuiono kits which are a boat load of fun too. In addition to the programming side, the basic electronics is just as much fun. I even like soldering together components.

I agree, if someone really feels strongly about something (positive or negative), they can leave a comment. In fact, I don't pay much attention to the votes at all. I find that if someone doesn't actually take the time to write even a quick response to what they disagree with, then it's likely not that important anyway; and they just need a hug. Same goes with an upvote, they just seem like a "Hey, hi five Bro", and my sister does that to my nephew when he uses the "potty".

I bike every day as well. It's 34km round trip, but I couldn't imagine having to drive it. I would likely wind up dead from a stroke after all the road rage.

I would hope your university has an online search engine where you might be able to pull up some scholarly articles. If not, that's unfortunate. Wikipedia has a good list of academic databases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_academic\_databases\_and\_search\_engines You might also want to try Sage Publications: http://online.sagepub.com/search?fulltext=android+programming&src=hw&andorexactfulltext=and&submit=yes&x=37&y=11[^]

Just curios to see how many Eclipse hold outs there were for android development. If you are holding out, maybe why and have you tried the latest Android Studio.

I've posed a question in the quick answers, but wanted to see if anyone else has been having issues with Android Studio builds when multiple library projects are created. The IDE seems to find dependencies just fine (and the project builds fine when using Eclipse), but the Gradle build fails as it doesn't seem to be able to locate the R file generated from a dependant library module. Here is a link to the Quick Answers with the detailed question: Android Studio library module build errors[^]