This Blog – Gangsta Style 

Link

Recently whilst preparin tha release of our TV Guide app, freestyled up in Cordova, our crazy-ass asses was fuckin wit fuckin shitloadz of flickerin / tilin as tha page was scrolled n’ on some (HTC) devices tha page would just turn black wit tha followin error repeatedly output ta tha console:

D/TiledPage(28639): ERROR: Our thugged-out asses aint gots enough tilez fo' dis page, muthafucka! nbTilesHeight 0 nbTilesWidth 3

Gizoogle Translator

Amazingly sophisticated gangsta translator from Gizoogle.

Upgrading from Android Cordova (PhoneGap) 2.1 to 2.2 Causes Black Screen or Flickering

Recently whilst preparing the release of our TV Guide app, written in Cordova, we were experiencing lots of flickering / tiling as the page was scrolled and on some (HTC) devices the page would just turn black with the following error repeatedly output to the console:

D/TiledPage(28639): ERROR: We don't have enough tiles for this page! nbTilesHeight 0 nbTilesWidth 3

After stripping out and playing around with the usual CSS suspects (TranslateZ(0)), minimising the DOM and removing all images temporarily we were having no luck. So I reverted the entire web asset codebase back to the prior release, but built it against the latest Cordova Android project, and the issue still existed.

With that the case, there was only one possible cause, the upgrade from Cordova 2.1 to 2.2. It turns out the AndroidManifest.xml had been changed to enable hardware acceleration on the whole view. Simply open your AndroidManifest.xml and find this <application> node:

<application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name"
android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
android:debuggable="true">

Remove the line:

android:hardwareAccelerated="true"

Clean and build. Your app should now perform as it did pre-Cordova 2.2. Hurray!

Using an iPhone 3G for 4 Years 

Link

Some of my favorite features of the iPhone 3G are paradoxically also some of the features I dislike the most. I love to write on the iPhone 3G because it forces me to write slower and I have to choose my words with greater care, similarly to how a lot of people prefer to write with pen and paper.
– Streakmachine : Four Years With My iPhone 3G.

Some interesting barriers and workarounds whilst using an iPhone 3G. Really great read.