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Android Core
Android books giveaway for celebrating Packt’s 1000 title
Fellow geeks, We are pleased to announce that we have once again teamed up with Packt Publishing and we are…
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Software Development
Trying to understand CAP
The CAP theorem, stated by Brewer and proved by Gilbert and Lynch specifies a property of distributed systems. It states…
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Software Development
Motivation, Creativity and Innovation
I am a strong believer in that every individual on this earth can be creative and that hard focused work…
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Enterprise Java
Useful Ant build tags
Questions: How to do following tasks in ant file? Make zip file. Run command. Copy files to remote machine. Run…
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Core Java
Checked and unchecked exceptions in Java
Java has two types of exceptions – checked and unchecked. In short – checked are meant for cases when the…
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Scala
Fault-tolerance primitives in Scala: links and traps
Over the last decade Actor Model is actively marketed as a simple, effective and save concept for building concurrency. Being…
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Android Core
Android: Copy-paste with Intent and support for HTML
Android provides support for copy and paste feature using ClipBoardManager. The developer.android.com provides a brief description along with an image…
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Enterprise Java
The crystal ball illusion
I have noticed that people sometimes avoid doing thorough testing. This may sound as bogus to some, but hear me…
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Core Java
Guava Files: Java File Management
Both Groovy and Java SE 7 provide improvements for file management in Java as I discussed in posts here, here,…
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