Thinik it's time to get back to doing some Android projects. 
 
I'm going to create a Pennsylvanis River stages app as yet another practice app. Going to have to use this site to store scraped NWS hydrologic informaiton using PHP and MySQL first though. Then the Android app can hit this site for a quick data fix as opposed to forcing every end user phone to directly hit a data heavy HTTP site and scrape on the phone. 
 
first thing's are first though...need to find my login to this site :)
 
 

 I recently created an Android application named Oil Reporter Map that displays user submitted incidents related to the BP Deepwater disaster. It integrates with a Crisis Commons based site to retrieve and display incidents and photos via a JSON based API. My application was mentioned (albeit very briefly) in a recent CNN article 
 

 Working with the Android SDK. It's superb in my opinion. All Java with the Java SE APIs available. The eclipse IDE integration is fantastic. I was able to create a small app to show my current location on a google map view on my phone and post that location to a web site within an hour just knowing Java. Compared to learning Objective C on the iPhone and paying Apple $99 a year for the 'right' to develop on their platform I'll take it. 

 I recently purchased a Pentax K20-D DSLR. Really haven't taken a lot of pictures since my younger days and I've had the itch recently. What an amazing piece of well crafted hyper engineered technology. 

Some example photos at: http://picasaweb.google.com/soverby/PublishedPrints#

Very busy again, hence no updates.Currently working on a Progress 4gl object in my 'spare' time to create JSON formatted output from Progress. More later...

 Since I now have a site to host my PHP and MySQL I'm working on a facebook App. I'm trying to decide how real the commercial value-add is for building such apps. I think the volume on the hype with business getting on Facebook and Twitter is a bit high. However there is certainly value-add to working on the ole Web 2.0 integration skills. 
 

Having recently worked as part of a two person team desiging and implementing a Drupal powered LAMP stack site I have decided to create my own as both a personal web presence and a sandbox for testing various technologies and honing my chops.