https://cvpcs.org/ 2026-04-06T00:30:13-07:00 https://cvpcs.org/ https://cvpcs.org/lib/tpl/cvpcs/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-05-18T10:11:24-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2012-05-18/jenkins_build_server Jenkins Build Server So after a long hiatus of finally transitioning between some important stuff IRL, it's about time to take a look back on some of my coding projects. What better way to start than to set up some fun infrastructure! With that in mind, I present my text/html 2012-01-17T22:56:37-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2012-01-18/internetional_blackout_day Internetional Blackout Day I wanted to join in with the rest of the internet today and do my part in spreading the word about the legislation that is SOPA and PIPA. For those of you who may (somehow) not be familiar with this legislation, they are the latest attempts by the powers that be within the United States government to stop piracy. While what they attempt to do is understandable, their methods as they stand to day would likely break the internet as we know it. text/html 2011-12-02T21:08:43-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-12-03/motomagic MotoMagic So I've been working hard on developing for ICS on the DX, and after a few weeks of rounding up bug fixes and code from all over the net, a thought occurred to me: why must this be the way of maintaining a device? Why do I have to scour forums and github repositories to find fixes that others have accomplished but I never got word of? This just won't do. text/html 2011-11-16T08:27:04-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-11-16/the_world_of_pxe_booting The World of PXE Booting Well, it's been quite some time since I've posted here (almost 2 months is quite some time in my book). For those of you who are wondering, no, I didn't become re-addicted to Minecraft, regardless of how similar this 2 month hiatus is from the one that occurred last year around this time. The fact of the matter is that I'm still finishing up school, and this time of the year is always busy between working 20 hours a week, going to school full time, and being very acti… text/html 2011-09-18T13:19:31-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-09-18/videolan_for_android_pre-alpha VideoLAN for Android (pre-alpha) Today while browsing teh interwebz, I came across some information about how to build VLC media player for android. As someone who uses VLC quite a bit on my desktop, I was quite excited at the prospect of running it on my Android devices, so I went ahead and built a pre-alpha package for it! text/html 2011-09-15T23:13:18-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-09-16/bionic_bootstrap_recovery Bionic Bootstrap Recovery I've decided to take the time to release the Bionic Bootstrap recovery that I have been using for my own developments so that others (especially developers) can get started on their own development efforts for the Bionic. text/html 2011-09-15T21:43:38-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-09-16/from_stock_to_cm_in_48_hours From Stock to CM in 48 hours So as many of you who are reading this have likely heard, after merely a week of being released, the much anticipated Motorola Droid Bionic has been obtained, root, fastboot, custom recovery, and now a pre-alpha boot of CyanogenMod 7! I thought it would be appropriate to write up a post about how we got there in such a ridiculously short period of time! Let's start with how I got started on the Bionic. text/html 2011-08-18T09:52:08-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-08-18/time_for_some_motorola_merging Time for some Motorola merging! So I've been AFK for awhile again... What can I say? Work has been hectic, so sue me. Actually, on second thought, I shouldn't make that suggestion, since it seems I can't go a day without reading some news about someone suing someone else over some ridiculous trademark or patent claim. Alright everyone, all together! text/html 2011-07-25T20:45:09-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-07-26/i_can_haz_an_update I can haz an update? So I've been getting a lot of questions about where the hell I've been lately and I finally have the opportunity to let everyone know. I will keep this short and to the point (haha yeah right) wordy and poorly thought out while also attempting to let everyone know what to expect over the next few weeks. text/html 2011-06-30T16:25:32-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-06-30/first_impressions_of_google First impressions of Google+ So last night I got an invite into Google+, the new social networking apparatus that Google has put together, and I figured I would write about my basic impression of the more interesting features. Circles Circles are essentially a tagging mechanism for the people you add to your profile. You can create circles as categories of people (such as Friends, Aquantiences, Coworkers, etc), and then you can add people to as many of the circles as you feel is appropriat… text/html 2011-06-22T16:49:41-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-06-23/getting_ncover_and_nunit_to_play_nicely_with_.net_4.0 Getting NCover and NUnit to play nicely with .NET 4.0 Today I spent a great deal of time pulling my hair out in an attempt to get code coverage working for an application I'm developing at my place of employment. In an effort to hopefully prevent myself and others from enduring the same degree of pain and suffering, I am documenting my findings below and how I got it working. text/html 2011-06-18T11:05:31-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-06-18/cm7_droid_x_nightlies_go_live CM7 Droid X nightlies go live! Last Sunday night, I was successful in getting CyanogenMod 7 booting on my Motorola Droid X using 2nd-init for the very first time. Now today is the Saturday, and in just under a week's time we've had quite a roller-coaster ride. We've gone from a video (which received much praise but also much speculation), to a beta release only a few days later, to being officially merged into the CM tree, to now having nightly builds available for all. And that was all in… text/html 2011-06-13T21:03:21-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-06-14/2nd-init._what_it_is_and_how_it_works 2nd-init. What it is and how it works. So over the past few days, with all of the CM4DX hype, a lot of people have been asking what this 2nd-init thing is that solved all of the problems in DX land and made the world suddenly fill with sunshine and win. Well, I've decided to do a little write-up on that very subject. text/html 2011-06-04T22:57:55-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-06-05/time_to_wipe_data/cache Time to wipe data/cache! So a few months ago I was approached by some members of the community who asked me to do a write up on the notorious multiple data wiping that people seem to be doing to their devices. It had become a common thing to have install instructions on ROMs to include phrases such as: text/html 2011-06-01T16:59:16-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-06-02/the_trials_of_project_omaha The trials of project omaha So today I spent the day looking into a certain little gem of open source software, courtesy of Google, called Project Omaha. So what is omaha? Some of you might not know it, but when you install any Google app on your computer, you aren't actually downloading that app, but instead downloading the Google Updater, with a tag that identifies which app you're looking for. text/html 2011-05-31T20:47:51-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-06-01/thunderbolt_assistance Thunderbolt assistance This is a bit of a shorter post but is also one of the more fun ones! Sometime last week slayher of the CM for Thunderbolt team put a call out to see if anyone was interested in joining the TB team to try and get it ready for nightly status. text/html 2011-05-31T20:27:41-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-06-01/1_battery_increments_for_sholes 1% battery increments for sholes Yes, you read that right, but before you get all excited, let me give some background on what's going on here. A few days ago, I received a query about whether or not 1% battery percentages would be possible on sholes, after text/html 2011-05-31T20:17:41-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-06-01/libaudio_nears_testing_stages Libaudio nears testing stages I have a frame built for the libaudio driver, and am now in the process of merging it into the source tree to start building it and then testing it. It is still missing a lot of core IO control code to actually communicate with the CPCAP audio driver, as a lot of that will be trial and error. text/html 2011-05-24T21:55:40-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-05-25/sholes_3g_and_other_topics So what about 3G on sholes? So a lot of people are probably wondering why I haven't updated in awhile. I actually am hoping to start updating this blog more often but with shorter blog posts in order to try and keep up with all of the crazy stuff I'm up to lately! text/html 2011-05-14T18:56:51-07:00 Austen Dicken https://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-05-15/let_s_get_this_thing_started_again Let's get this thing started again! So as promised, this blog post will be about my work with CM and, in particular the state of the Motorola Droid and Motorola Droid X. I'll also throw in a few more things here and there to spice things up if that's what you fancy.