For a change of pace, I thought I’d channel a bit of Cosmo and offer a numbered article today. I’ve asked by others to do a lot of code reviews lately, and while doing this, I’ve made some notes as to what works, what doesn’t, and how I can improve. Here are those notes, enumerated…
So, in response to feedback from my previous post about my home automation server site, I’ve decided to incorporate AJAX and JQuery into my solution. This is partially because it’s The Right Thing ™ and partially because I’m a sucker for the proposition of learning a new technology. So, here are the steps I…
Source Control Smells? I was reading through some code the other day, and I came across a class that made me shutter a little. Interestingly, it wasn’t a code smell or a name smell. I wasn’t looking at the class itself, and it had an innocent enough name. It was a source control smell. I…
I’m documenting here my first successful crack at adding a google map to an android application. Below are the steps I followed, with prerequisite steps of having the Android SDK and Eclipse installed, and being all set up for Android development (documented here). Created a new Android project Navigated to Help->Install New Software in Eclispe….
As I’m getting back into Java and particularly Spring MVC, it’s a bit of an adjustment period, as it always is when you’re dusting off old skills or trying something new. Things that should be easy are maddeningly beyond your reach. In light of that, I’m going to document a series of small milestones as…
