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Android Core
How to show a Toast for a specific duration in Android
In the Android SDK, an android.widget.Toast is a small message that pops up at the bottom of the screen to…
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Core Java
Coding: Visualising a bitmap
Over the last month or so I’ve spent some time each day reading a new part of the Neo4j code…
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Software Development
Sublime VS. Atom: Can GitHub Take the Lead?
Comparing Sublime and Github’s Atom in 10 major categories Sublime has been the undisputed text editing champion for a while now.…
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Groovy
Grails Goodness: Custom Data Binding with @DataBinding Annotation
Grails has a data binding mechanism that will convert request parameters to properties of an object of different types. We…
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Software Development
Software Development Lessons Learned from Consumer Experience
Because we software developers are also inevitably consumers of others’ software applications, we are undoubtedly influenced in the creation of…
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Core Java
Simple Class to Measure Latency
This is a very simple class I wrote to measure latency. It’s not the Rolls Royce solution that is HDRHistogram but…
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Core Java
#102030: Celebrating 20 Years of Java by Running 20 10K in 30 Days
May 23rd, 1995 was a momentous day in the history of technology. It does not seem the industry realized that…
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Software Development
Functions Named as Adjectives
I’ve got a shorter one this week. Partially, that’s because I was part way through a post before deciding to…
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Enterprise Java
Continuous Delivery with Docker Containers and Java EE
Organizations need a way to make application delivery fast, predictable and secure and the agility provided by containers, such as…
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