At OSCON 2012 in Portland I gave a presentation on building your first MongoDB application. Over 150 people were in the audience, a pretty significant number of this type of hands on tutorial. Certainly worth the weeks of preparation that went into developing it. While at OSCON I...
Other topics in this series - Table of Contents Just a small post to make a note of something effective that I use. While working with the appengine, one often has to wade through lots of log statements, and having a lot of log statements is a good thing in my opinion. Howeve...
I recently returned from OSCON where I was able to give one of the more popular presentations at the conference. I presented on the morning of the first day and throughout the entire week people kept coming up to me telling me how much they enjoyed my tutorial and how bored they...
For those who don’t know, GWT-Bootstrap wants to port the Twitter Bootstrap widgets to GWT compatible and easy to use components/widgets.
If you are like me you use Picasa to manage your photos, but recognize that the editing options are very limited. You can easily add a button in Picasa that will allow you to edit the current picture in photoshop. I took an existing button built for PhotoshopCS3 and updated it to...
According to the project site on GitHub, The Guava project contains several of Google’s core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based projects: collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and so forth.
Yesterday, I wrote a small article talking about Guice and JUnit, so, this time, I’ll just say how to use the small lib that I build (not big deal, one class, one annotation =] )
First of all: Do you use Guice as Dependency Injection Container in your Apps? If not, why?
Other topics in this series - Table of Contents At the Meet the Go Team session at Google I/O 2012, a question that brought a bunch of different responses from the main people working on Go was ‘What is your favorite Go feature?’. But I lie. The question was actually ‘...
Other topics in this series - Table of Contents Google Dev, 2012: Getting started with Go, Andrew Gerrand Boston GDG, 2012: A Tour of Go - interfaces, reflection, and concurrency. Builds a toy web crawler to demonstrate these, Russ Cox (Q&A page) A Hangout, 2012: Building Go A...