Jeshurun's Blog

Not too long ago I had to interface with Zimbra‘s admin API for one of my projects, and quickly realized that it is er.. a little weird. You see, Zimbra has a SOAP (and also a limited REST) API, but does not does not publish a WSDL for them. Neither is an xsd or DTD available to validate your requests against or to generate client stubs. To make things worse, the only documentation available is a lengthy but simple text file which lists the available operation names as tags and the attributes / elements that go with each of them. In case you are interested in this file, you can find it in the docs folder of your Zimbra installation.
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The Android marked reached 10 Billion downloads today, and to celebrate, Google is offering some quality apps for the next 10 days for 10¢ a piece!

Android Market's Exponential Growth

If your current device doesn’t support an app you would like to purchase, but you would like to get it anyway, say because you plan to upgrade in the near future, you could still get the app from the online store at this link: https://market.android.com/details?feature=banne­r&id=apps_timed_promotion

Here is the list of fire sale apps for 6/12/2011:

1. SoundHound
2. Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD
3. Minecraft – Pocket Edition (yep!)
4. SwiftKey X Keyboard
5. Endomondo Sports Tracker PRO
6. Great Little War Game
7. SketchBook Mobile
8. Fieldrunners HD
9. Color & Draw for kids: phone ed
10. Paper Camera

I’ll just let the pictures do the talking on this one..

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Also check out how this baby reboots in under 20 seconds:

So who is hoping to find one of these under the Christmas tree? Stay tuned for our next post where we rip it apart and apply some quality thermal paste to keep it running cool..