Google Chat sound notifications

I realized one fine morning that I was not getting sound notifications for incoming messages on Google Chat (the classic one within Gmail). I had the sound notifications set ON in settings, and my speakers were working. After some googling, one forum post suggested to clear the cache. The solution was offered for the same problem in the Chat app for Android. It made no sense to me - what could the cache have to do with sound. Having nothing to lose, I tried it and voila - sound notifications were working again!

Eclipse nightmare solved (kind of)

I got tired of EGit while working with Android projects. Each time I tried to pull from the GitHub repository, it failed to recognize the project. I am currently using the official GitHub tool for Windows and don't have problems anymore.

Learning languages vs learning frameworks

I had a brief argument with +Lavanya Viswanathan  about whether learning languages is easier compared to learning frameworks. My opinion was that learning frameworks is harder:

For e.g. I had a harder time learning .NET Framework compared to C#. I also had a harder time learning Rails compared to Ruby.

This might be because while I have been used to similar languages like C++  and Python, I have never really been exposed to frameworks which are similar.

My two cents.

Edit:

+Lavanya Viswanathan  has made it clear that she was neither for nor against either notion. :P

Eclipse nightmare

I was working on an app for my Mobiles Apps and Services class and accidentally permanently deleted my entire project. Luckily, we were using GitHub for versioning and I pulled the latest version.

For some reason, Eclipse was not able to detect the project description file in the project. I kept getting an error message that said "this compilation unit is not in your build path". To make things worse, even Google couldn't help me. Nobody seemed to understand the problem and none of the solutions worked.

I ended up downloading the zip from GitHub and importing the Android project from existing source code. I still have to link to the GitHub repo but at least I am able to run the damn thing!

Happy Deepavali to everyone!