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Android Core
Develop android weather app with Material Design
This post describes how to create a weather app using material design guidelines. Material Design is a set of rules…
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Core Java
Java performance tuning survey results (part I)
We conducted a Java performance tuning survey during October 2014. The main goal of the survey was to gathering insight…
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Software Development
Development Overhead
What does a developer spend his time on? Writing code, debugging, thinking and communicating with colleagues (that includes meetings). Anything…
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Software Development
Painless Access from Java to PL/SQL Procedures with jOOQ
PL/SQL is one of those things. Most people try to stay clear of it. Few people really love it. I…
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Scala
First steps with REST, Spray and Scala
On this site you can already find a couple of articles on how to do REST with a multiple of…
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Android Core
A Guide to Android RecyclerView and CardView
The new support library in Android L (Lollipop) introduced two new UI widgets: RecyclerView and CardView. The RecyclerView is a…
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Software Development
Pair Programming for Team Building
Extreme programming (XP) introduced most people to pair programming. The theory was that the sooner that code was reviewed, the…
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Core Java
How Immutability Helps
In a few recent posts, including “Getters/Setters. Evil. Period.”, “Objects Should Be Immutable”, and “Dependency Injection Containers are Code Polluters”,…
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Software Development
Have You Ever Wondered About the Difference Between NOT NULL and DEFAULT?
When writing DDL in SQL, you can specify a couple of constraints on columns, like NOT NULL or DEFAULT constraints.…
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