Time for a golden oldie: Pragmatic Software Development Tips
From the century start era of The Pragmatic Bookshelf | The Pragmatic Programmer, a – still valid – list of Pragmatic Software Development Tips. From Care About Your Craft, via DRY, Some Things Are...
View ArticleCyber-Dojo: practice unit-tested programming in pairs/groups using Katas
Wow, I’ve been living under a stone (: Just discovered the online Cyber-Dojo by Jon Jagger. It is an online manifestation of a Coding Dojo. Both have been there for years, and I think both are...
View ArticleRemote Android screen monitoring and viewing
Another one in the “WordPress Missed schedule” series. Below are the Android remote screen monitoring/viewer tools I know about: For a long time, I have used Droid@Screen: an Open Source, Java based...
View ArticleSome links on Delphi, JNI, Android
So I won’t forget to read these: Paul Foster – Google+ – XE5 – Fun with external Java libraries So, having been… Above but as a PDF version, thanks Fun with external Java libraries on XE5 by Paul...
View ArticleChoose your chart type & Amount of profanity in git commit messages per...
Funny charts at andrewvos.com – Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language. The source is online too: AndrewVos/github-statistics. And it led me to this really nice way of...
View Articleongoing by Tim Bray · Fat JSON
Plan C: JWalk. No, not jaywalk. Trimming JSON results from Java: ongoing by Tim Bray · Fat JSON. –jeroenFiled under: Development, Java, Java Platform, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSON, Scripting, Software...
View ArticleRegistry keys to prevent Java installs from adding sponsors (Ask/Google/Yahoo...
One of the reasons I quit Java development a while ago is that for years, each and every Java client update on Windows wants to install “add-ons” like Ask/Google/Yahoo toolbars, McAfee viruses, etc....
View ArticleA few must watch videos on test driven development and unit testing
If you are going to do test driven development and unit testing, you should watch these videos and slide decks, most of them by Miško Hevery: Not a video, but a good starter: Guide: Writing Testable...
View ArticleDelphi hinting directives: deprecated, experimental, library and platform
I’ve been experimenting with the Delphi hinting directives lately to make it easier to migrate some libraries to newer versions of Delphi and newer platforms. Hinting directives (deprecated,...
View ArticleEpisode 215: Gang of Four – 20 Years Later : Software Engineering Radio
If you are into serious software development, then this is a 75 minute PodCast you must listen to: Episode 215: Gang of Four – 20 Years Later : Software Engineering Radio. Abstract Johannes Thönes...
View ArticleTools to generate sample data from regeX expressions (via: Stack Overflow)
Thanks DD59 for posting these interesting links: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa833197.aspx (The Regular Expression Generator; Visual Studio) http://code.google.com/p/xeger/ (Xeger; Java...
View ArticleRosettaCode: cool way to improve your coding skills
Wow: I feel like having lived under a stone for 8 years, as RosettaCode has been alive since it was founded in 2007 by Mike Mol. The idea is that you solve a task and learn from that, or learn by...
View ArticleCodeInspect says “Hello World”: A new Reverse-Engineering Tool for Android...
Thanks Kristian Köhntopp for mentioning this, so it got on my research list: a new reverse-engineering framework that works on the intermediate representation Jimple and supports all the features above...
View ArticleCoding Kata videos: Bowling game
A long and shorter while ago, I wrote about practicing your coding and test driven development skills: Cyber-Dojo: practice unit-tested programming in pairs/groups using Katas. RosettaCode: cool way to...
View ArticleScala programming language and Venkat Subramaniam videos
A long while ago, someone (it was too long ago, so I sincerely forgot who, it probably was in the JBuilder era) told me that I should try out Ruby and Scala. I did take a short look at Ruby back then,...
View ArticleJon Skeet’s speech “Back to basics” is really a good watch – via Jørn Einar...
Thanks Jørn Einar Angeltveit for sharing this a while ago: A session by Jon Skeet and Tony the Pony (which has strong teeth) presented during the Polish DevDay 2013 in Kraków, Poland. +Jon Skeet’s...
View ArticleRegistry trick now fails to work for the Yahoo Search Engine update in Java 8...
Anyone who knows a trick to prevent Java 8 from installing the Yahoo search/toolbar in Chrome and Internet Explorer? This trick used to work in the past, but fails as of Java 8: –jeroen The old trick...
View ArticleJavaScript is not Java – A humorous comparison of JavaScript and Java.
Yesterday I told: Recently I did my very first JavaScript in HTML development. Since it was a one page experiment, I didn’t want to put it in an official repository of it’s own… which reminded me of...
View ArticleUnbundling Pokémon Go — Applidium
On the reverse engineering of an early Pokemon Go apk, the protocol it uses and some more interesting findings: Unbundling Pokémon Go — Applidium –jeroenFiled under: Android, Development, Java, Java...
View ArticleJava is not slow – Programmer’s Life : Programmer’s Life
(: string sender; sender = "Duda Nogueira"; Programmer: Come on, stop that crap that Java is slow... Programmer: Wait, I’ll show you my code to prove that Java is not slow. You’ll see it... Programmer:...
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