I love being a female developer. When I go to a hacker night, I feel like Scarlet in GI Joe, Firestar with Spiderman and his friends. Sysadmins and DBAs are happy to answer questions for a smile. In interviews and in conference speaker selection, I stand out. Colleagues open doors and invite me to happy … Read moreExpect to fly
Warning! This technique is suited to Android API Level 8-10 (Gingerbread). For Honeycomb or newer, use DialogFragment. Problem: my activity knows how to do something (delete a picture), but it needs to ask the user for confirmation first. Solution: pop a confirmation dialog, whose “yes” button responds by deleting the picture. Code:For the very simplest … Read moreAndroid: Confirmation Dialog
The problem: multiple Java projects, each with their own Gradle build, dependent on each other but not linked.The goal: connect them into one great build to rule them all.The caveat: without messing with the individual builds. It is 3 days before go-live at this startup. The solution:1) get all of the projects under one subdirectory. … Read moreConnecting Java Projects in Gradle
Why learn functional programming? For better design skills! The other day we designed a process to match cleared deposits with dispensations. This is how I would have white-boarded it a few years ago: Since then I’ve played around with functional programming. It encourages one to think about processing in terms of data streams: data comes … Read moreWhy Functional Matters: Your white board will never be the same