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I've been working with mobile phone software for years and have played with Symbian, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry before now, but Android has my interest piqued. It's all open-source, it's all Java and it uses as its standard development environment Eclipse, by far my favourite IDE.  

One of the things many Android applications need to do is retrieve information from somewhere on the web, and another is to display results in lists so I've put together some notes on how to start going about this. You can download all code and resources I refer to.

Microsoft has declared that, until 25th June 2010, it will pay small businesses US$850 per licensed user when they switch from rival NetSuite to their own Dynamics ERP package.

This is a perfectly legitimate way to attract punters of course, and the plethora of nice things Microsoft say in their press release about their own product would perhaps be helping to sway you, but why would the world's best-known software company have to pay you to use its software?

A project I've been working on recently is a web application that, amongst other things, allows users to upload pictures and to use a tool for cropping to a particular size. Once uploaded, the image appears at its original size, the user chooses how the image should be cropped and the server duly obliges.