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I drove a Maserati:

and I’m about to go on a BBQ journey:

At the party, I’ll be drinking my regular libation, which is the official bourbon of the Kentucky Derby: Woodford Reserve. I got the hat at Goorin Brothers in the Upper Haight in San Francisco.

Unfortunately, LinearLayout in Android does not provide easy access to a z-index property for views.
So, if you want to control the z order, you need to order your views properly. The z-index of views goes up as views are added.

<ImageView
android:id=”@+id/view_server_os_logo”
android:layout_width=”700dip”
android:layout_height=”700dip”
[...]

The removeHeader() call won’t work for you. You have to remove a request interceptor.

DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
httpclient.removeRequestInterceptorByClass(
org.apache.http.protocol.RequestExpectContinue.class);

This took me a while to track down, unfortunately, so I’m blogging it here so others can hopefully save some time.

Today I’m submitting the first update to the Rackspace Cloud iPad app.
New features include:

longer timeouts
password lock
multiple user accounts
minor bug fixes
email cloud files as attachments
email links to cdn-enabled cloud files
ping IP address uses web view in the app

Tonight I have submitted the Rackspace Cloud 1.1 update to the App Store. Here are the key new features:

The Launch SSH Server button works (assuming you have an ssh app such as iSSH that supports launching via URL)
Support for Spanish, French, and German
View CDN-enabled images and documents
Listen to CDN-enabled audio
Email links to CDN-enabled files
Email [...]

As Matt announced yesterday, Slicehost Pro for iPhone is now free. He also mentioned that I’m working on an Android version of the app.
It’s still in progress, but here’s a sneak peak of what it’s going to look like:

It should be available within a few hours of this post. (The amount of time between the “Approved” email and actually being on the App Store somewhat varies.)
Anyway, all I ever talk about on this blog is the Slicehost iPhone apps. While I find them interesting and love them very much, is there [...]

It’s been approved! Now I’m working on a small feature addition for 1.31 and then I’ll submit an update to the free version.

I have received some great feedback today on Slicehost Pro. Many thanks to everyone who has tried it out!
The first thing I’ve done for the next version is make the DNS Record Type selection more user-friendly. Instead of typing the record type (A, CNAME, etc), you can now drill down and select from [...]