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Android Core
Working with Robolectric and Robotium in Android Studio and Gradle
I develop the TripComputer App for Android but I find testing apps using the standard Android Instrumentation framework is really slow and…
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Software Development
Open Source Doesn’t Need More Support. It Needs Better Business Models
Jamie Allen, Typesafe‘s Director of Global Services published an interesting point of view on Twitter: Pivotal’s move to end support…
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Core Java
Given When Then in Java
tl;dr you can use labels to clarify a given-when-then style of testing. What is given-when-then? given-when-then is a commonly used…
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Enterprise Java
High Available AMQP Backed Message Channels via Spring Integration and RabbitMQ
Spring Integration message channels store messages in memory by default. This is because memory is fast, easy to implement and…
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Core Java
Fine points of protection
In the article Some Sentences about Java I wrote that “Protected methods and fields can be used from classes in…
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Enterprise Java
Managing Savepoints with ADF BC
While working with ADF BC we usually rely on the framework for performing DML operations in the database. The framework…
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Groovy
Total Bummer: Pivotal Drops Groovy
Pivotal announced today that Groovy 2.4 And Grails 3.0 will be the last major releases under Pivotal sponsorship. This is…
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Core Java
The Decorator Pattern With Java 8
In a recent post I described how the decorator pattern saved my day. I gave a small code snippet which…
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