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What I thought of “Instant Android Fragmentation Management How-to” 28 Mar 2013 | 12:50 pm
I was recently contacted by the marketing team from Packt Publishing and asked if I could write a review for one of their new ebooks, so here it is! This book gives a brief yet comprehensive overview ...
A few little tweaks to automate Android instrumentation testing via Robotium & Maven 6 Feb 2013 | 01:03 am
Having recently revived an android project I haven’t opened in close to 6 months, I was left scratching my head as to why I couldn’t run any of my integration tests. Thinking back, I remembered having...
Bootstrapping a Grails application to prepopulate data on startup 23 Jan 2013 | 01:15 am
I’ve been dabbling in a little Grails recently, and I found it quite frustrating having to re-enter some sample data everytime I restarted my application, in order to have the views look meaningful. F...
Deploying a grails application to Cloudbees 23 Jan 2013 | 01:10 am
I spent much of last weekend experimenting with the grails framework, so I wanted to deploy what I had in the cloud. Theres a big tutorial on the IntelliJ IDEA documentation (the screenshots don’t see...
Override the toString on your domain classes so they display as something useful 23 Jan 2013 | 01:06 am
If you’re finding that your domain objects are not being displayed in a readable manner, chances are its because they haven’t been told to. This is often the case in drop down menus that the grails sc...
How I passed the SCJP / OCPJP 3 Dec 2012 | 11:22 pm
After procrastinating for many years (4 to be precise), I finally sat and passed the SCJP exam. The exam itself wasn’t particularly difficult, but theres a lot of things you can get tested on that you...
Not posted in a while, busy busy busy! 3 Nov 2012 | 11:09 pm
Hi folks, It’s been a little while since I made any detailed posts, and it’s not through lack of wanting. I’ve been pretty busy with a new project at work, and I’m also preparing to (finally) sit my S...
Continue and break, with and without labels, for the SCJP 22 Aug 2012 | 11:23 pm
Looping constructs are very useful in any programming language, however they can be come particularly complex when you have a variety of nested loops and you need to drop out from particular iteration...
The Dark Tower 3 : Wastelands 22 Aug 2012 | 01:08 am
I’ve just finished reading the third instalment in Steven King’ masterpiece fantasy series, and I must conclude each instalment in the series just gets better and better. If you don’t want to know abo...
Monster Island; a zombie novel 22 Aug 2012 | 01:07 am
I’ve got a habit of deciding which books to purchase by how good the covers are, or by entrusting what is written on the back of the book, this time I followed this tradition. I’ve been a fan of tradi...
