Invoke webservices from Android

This is ongoing blog on Getting Started with Android. In earlier blog, I provided an architecture overview of android application, followed by setting up the development environment for Android and creating and running a simple application.

In this blog, I would describe how to invoke web services (soap based services) via Android. In my next blog, I would follow it up with how to invoke REST based services….

Getting Started with Android – Creating Android Application

This is ongoing blog on Getting Started with Android. In earlier blog, I provided an architecture overview of android application. In this blog, I would setup the development environment for Android and create a simple hello world application.

I would say are two ways you could develop Android applications-

The web development way: – Utilizing your web development skills like- HTML, CSS 3 and JavaScript (JQuery libraries). For…

Creating a travel blog using wordpress

I have been working for some time on creating my travel blog on word press. Here are some insights on my experiences on creating a travel blog on word press that you may find helpful -

Selecting a theme for travel blog

WordPress offers numerous free themes, but finding the right theme is always a challenge. I was looking was a 3 column type layout, where I could configure categories and…

Getting Started with Android

Android is an open source development platform for mobile phones based on Linux, created by Google and Open Handset Alliance. The latest release of Android is 2.3. As a developer you won’t interact with Linux directly, instead you would use the Android application framework (android apis and sdk) for creating applications.

Android applications are written in the Java language, but compiled and converted into the compact Dalvik Executable (.dex) format,…

Moving towards BPMN 2.0

The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a standard for modeling business process modeling. BPMN provides a set of graphical notations for modeling business processes.

To model a business process flow, you can simply start of with modeling the events that starts the process, the activities that get performed as part of process, and the end result of the process flow. You can also optionally place the events and activities…

Updating wordpress to new version

Recently, I updated my wordpress to latest version of wordpress 3.0.3. The latest version of wordpress (3.0 and above) provides support for multisite, so you could install multi blogs and manage this using a single wordpress database and install. Earlier this feature was provided with wordpress MU, but with 3.0, wordpress MU was merged with wordpress. This is pretty useful; as I have multiple blogs on my sub domains…