FillLPG for Android is dead .. long live FillLPG for Android

Please note that I have now removed FillLPG for Android from the Google Play Store. You can read more about this here. – August 2020

TLDR; The FillLPG for Android app has reached end of life and no further development or maintenance will be undertaken. It will remain in the Play Store for as long as the third-party FillLPG website remains online but I have no control over that.

The FillLPG for Android app was initially developed to scratch an itch – I had an LPG powered vehicle (I don’t anymore) and had stumbled on to the FillLPG website. I responded to a request from the website owner for someone to write a mobile and thought it would be a good little project to get started in this arena.

It has proved itself to be just that, initially written in Java and then migrated to C# using Xamarin this little app has helped me keep my skill levels up – or at least it did.

Your app does not support Android Pie!

I receive a lot of SPAM regarding the FillLPG mobile app, mainly offering to increase my install numbers and ratings, but today new approach appeared in my Inbox.

Hi there,

I was reviewing your app FillLPG – LPG Station Finder, and it looks great. But it appears the app does not support new Android Pie. Without it, more than half of the users cannot use the app properly. I am an app developer and I can update your app in a couple of days if you want.

Thanks

Jon

It may not be obvious but this is just SPAM, sent by a bot and I doubt that anyone called ‘Jon’ is actually involved in the process, let alone reviewing my app.

PersonalEncrypter – New and Improved

A couple of months ago I updated the PersonalCLI project to remove information leakage in the form of the original filename of the encrypted data. In my original post about this project I eluded to updating it to move away from the Microsoft encryption libraries and to implement the libSodium library instead.

Well, I’m happy to say that I’ve found some time to do this and moved to .NET Standard at the same time – yep, the future is here.

Online Tool of the Month – FakeNumber.org

I don’t know about you but I get a little hacked off when I want to sign up for a simple something but have to give up so much of my personal data that I sometimes just look elsewhere.

Now I’m not talking about my name or even my email address, but why would a service want my home address when I’m not going to be sent any physical goods or my telephone number …. at all? Depending on the service/company I may see the need for this information and will provide it if it is really needed – but a lot of the time this information is just going to be sold on or used for sales calls that I neither signed up for or wanted.

On The Fence Development – What’s All That About Then?

I’ve been contracting for over seven years now and during that time I’ve had a number of clients, friends fellow contractors ask me “…why ‘On The Fence‘? What’s that all about??”.

Ignoring the fact that the blog I initially hosted on this domain was about my experiences with Linux and Open Source while working day to day as a .NET Developer using Windows, I think that the name fits – it’s all about not putting all your eggs in one basket as it were.

I think that there is quite a wide line between trying to be a ‘Jack of All Trades’ and a ‘One Trick Pony’ and as a Contractor I think that this is a good place to be.