Random Thoughts on Coding

Backing up your data is an important task. As we all know, it’s not a matter of if you are going to experience a crash or failure, but when. Blogs are no exception. I wanted to take a break from my regular style of posts to share my simple backup...

This post is a continuation of my series on Google Guava, this time covering Futures. The Futures class is a collection of static utility methods for working with the Future/ListenableFuture interface. A Future is a handle to an asynchronous task, either a Runnable or Callable, that was submitted to an...

In my last post I covered using the Monitor class from the com.google.common.util.concurrent package in the Guava Library. In this post I am going to continue my coverage of Guava concurrency utilities and discuss the ListenableFuture interface. A ListenableFuture extends the Future interface from the java.util.concurrent package, by adding a...

The Google Guava project is a collection of libraries that every Java developer should become familiar with. The Guava libraries cover I/O, collections, string manipulation, and concurrency just to name a few. In this post I am going to cover the Monitor class. Monitor is a synchronization construct that can...

This is the final post in a 3 part series on implementing Drag and Drop in an Android application. The first post covered hiding an ImageView when starting a drag. The second post covered handling drops outside an intended drop zone. This final installment covers moving a game piece as...