Andy Crowther

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Recent posts by Andy Crowther

Thanks for the notes. I don't think I'm the 'micro managing' type.  I'm more the 'empower them' type.

I also note a LOT of engineers say they simply don't want to manage, or try managing and want to code...  which is why I hear a lot of people saying they don't mind so much if their managers don't know how to code.  (And of course, I do know how to code, just probably not well enough to be an actual engineer)
2 years ago
Hi all, I've been in retail management for 20 years now (9 of them managing managers), 7 years in leisure management before that, so I have plenty of management experience.  I'm very likely going to be made redundant next year and with my strong interests in tech I would like to transition to IT Management.

I have some skills in programming, enough to write some simple apps and websites, but I don't think I should look at coding, although I'm not ruling this out.

I have time on my side.  With the pay out and my savings I can spend two or three years studying and gaining qualifications if that's what is needed.  I've got PSM1 from Scrum.org already.

Really I'm just wondering what people's advice would be.  Is there a good 6 month course I should look to do for example?  Should I use a recruiter to help me find something?

Thanks for any help offered
2 years ago

Peter Rooke wrote:or to be a hooligan a KTM.



Hey!  ðŸ˜¡

Yeah, to be fair, I can be a hooligan...  These days I just don't get the chance.  I'm barely out of second gear.
5 years ago
Everything looks to be okay when reading and writing the database internally.  How can I check this line is correct -

   
If I don't have root?  Can I use ADB to snoop round and check that is where the Huawei stores the app data?
5 years ago
If I use the Huawei, set a few things in the app, which then should save to a database, only so it can be exported (I'm, new to all this and this seemed an easy way to let me export and import) I then export and try and import that on my Android One device, it doesn't work.

In fact, I've uploaded the exported DB and it looks to be rather empty. This leads me to believe the issue is with Huawei using different internal storage and the problem is perhaps it never saves the database locally, so it can't export it.
5 years ago
I have a few different phones and I think this import works on them all, except my Huawei Mate 20 Pro.  Here is the code -







The logcat I get when I run this on my Huawei is -



I thought maybe Huawei have a weird file structure or something, but there are no errors about not finding the file, it just doesn't read the info from it like others do.

Any ideas?
5 years ago
Okay, so I needed to ask for permission at run time.  For anyone else with this problem, my code is now -



I will make a new thread for the reading database issue I think, as the thread title isn't really appropriate for that.
5 years ago
Correct.  In my code, I actually had the line you suggested already there, but commented out. I think I'd tried it before.
5 years ago
To confirm.  I get the same result.
5 years ago
Thanks, I'll try, but does that not try and make the directory twice?  From what I read, putting it right into the IF statement tried to make it and based the IF statement off the result?
5 years ago
Me again, I have an issue with backup manager, apparently on just one of my phones.  So I seem to have it set up correctly as I can get it to restore by manually triggering a restore, or it seems if I uninstall and install my app, it returns the data with it.  But, on my Huawei Mate 20 Pro, I get this error on the log cats -



Any ideas?
5 years ago
I'm having a problem with my backup and restore of a database in my Android App.

I have a few different problems.  The first is it won't create the directory, even though I have write permissions -



The logcat is -



Then, with a backed up database that works fine on other phones, the import wont work either -



The logcat looks like this -



So no errors.  It doesn't say it can't find or access the file, it just seems to ignore the contents of it?

Any ideas?
5 years ago
When you say with the wife, do you mean as a pillion? If so, I would lean towards comfort.
5 years ago
Awesome, thanks  I didn't know I wanted a cow until I got one
It turns out that Google wont allow authentication in a webview, which is what iOS used when you add to home screen.  This means it opens Safari, which can't pass the authentication info back into the webview, so I think I'm stuck with just using it as a website, not a webapp  (Well, until maybe iOS make some changes)