Eat N Split v1.0 is now available on the Android Market. Eat N Split is a bill splitting application, that takes a different approach than most other bill splitters out there.

I've been working on a startup called ContactJam, and a few months ago, we switched from MySQL to Hbase. Since the switch, a big frustration of mine has been connecting to a remote instance of Hbase for development. I recently discovered a homebrew recipe to get Hbase running locally on my Mac. This recipe makes setting up Hbase and Thrift locally super easy, and will get you up and running in no time.

MassiveRecord is a ruby ORM for Hbase. It works well, although it is still a pretty young project. One issue I came across was that date_select didn't parse into a Date object. The problem is, since date_select splits the date parameters (Month, Day, and Year) into 3 separate objects.

I came across this a long time ago, and randomly came across it again recently.

A lot of Android applications I've used don't provide interfaces for multiple screen sizes. Using applications that don't scale properly can be extremely annoying, and if your app doesn't scale properly, it can really decreases the value of your app to users. In this post, I will explain how to create the different layouts for the different screen sizes.