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• Enable Hebrew spell checker after Jeremy fixed the underlying Webkit bug.
  [r7496 xji]
• Update build files to use PSDK 6.1 (platformsdk_win2008_6_1). This is necessary for dynamic font support.
  [r7520 jungshik]

A long time ago, I wrote a crappy Google Maps mashup that plots NPR stations on a map. Since then, NPR has added station finder which includes a road trip feature that lists stations to tune into while on a long drive.

Since I always forget to use the station finder before road trips, I wrote a small android app that simply finds the nearest station.

It doesn’t stream music, it just finds nearby stations. Actually it just approximates nearby stations based on the city that the station is in.

download | source

My girlfriend, Katherine, has been playing a lot of Baker’s Game solitaire on her iPhone (it’s available as a free app). I don’t have an iPhone and wanted to play the same game on my G1. I wasn’t able to find the game in the Android Market, but one of the solitaire games is open source and contains Freecell. So I went ahead and forked the code to add Baker’s Game.

source | download

If you’re viewing the source, you want to be on the solitaire_plus branch.

Next, I’ll write an Android app from scratch.

I’m having fun with my new Android phone. I went ahead and installed debian on it, mainly because I can, but also becuase this lets me write python scripts on it. A few notes on where I diverged from the instructions:

• My phone is an unlocked developer phone. There’s no need to run telnet, instead, I run adb -d shell and su on the device.
• I tried to make a 3gb image, but it failed to mount on the device. ls -l showed the file size as negative so maybe it’s a busybox/toolbox signed int32 limitation? I settled for a 2gb image.
• I followed Brad’s notes and I bind ssh to localhost and use adb port forwarding. I also use bind mounts (mount —bind /system /data/local/mnt/system; mount —bind /sdcard /data/local/mnt/sdcard).
• I found that if I leave the keyboard closed, when the screen turns off it switches from wifi back to edge. I’ve gotten in the habit of just leaving my keyboard open when it’s attached to the USB port.

• Handle cases where the multipart boundary is improperly prefixed with “—”.
  [r7364 darin]

Not much happened last week as most people were on vacation during the winter holidays. I imagine this week will be slow as well with the New Year coming.

Other activities not worth pointing to specific changes is the move of our webkit port from src/webkit/port into our vendor branch in src/third_party/WebKit. These are all baby steps towards being able to see the chromium builders on the webkit waterfall actually run the layout tests and be green.

Lots of progress was also made on fixing layout tests (sky is making quick progress as always).

• Add “Enable spell check for this field” menu option in sub context menu for context menu over text box
  [r7000 sidchat]
• fix box shadows
  [r7002 tc]
• Fix memory corruption in the GIF decoder if a GIF specified a frame with no pixel data.
  [r7103 pkasting]
• Fix incorrect pattern offsets
  [r7107 mmoss]
• Underlying functionality for generating native Visual Studio solution files
  [r7120 sgk]
• Fixes crash in download tab view
  [r7161 sky]
• Make sure the text field is focused when doing a JavaScript prompt (which shows an alert box with a text field in it).
  [r7201 jcampan]
• Add support for transformed, stoked, shadowed, filled text.
  [r7223 brettw]
• Fixes a leak of a ResourceHandle that happens with synchronous XMLHttpRequests
  [r7252 asargent]