Random Thoughts on Coding

This is the second post in a 3 part series on implementing Android Drag and Drop. In my last post I covered how to hide an ImageView and just show the DragShadowBuilder object at the start of a drag. This post is going to cover my efforts on restricting the...

This is the first post in a 3 part series that is going to cover implementing Drag and Drop in an Android application. (I am currently using version 4.0 of the sdk, but I originally wrote the code in this series with the 3.1 version.) Why Use Drag and Drop...

This post is going to cover unit testing a native Android application.   While working on my own modest Android application, I wanted to add some non-instrumented unit tests and was surprised  how challenging it was to use mock objects.  Admittedly, instrumented tests running on a emulator or actual device...

This post is going to demonstrate thrift usage by searching a Lucene index from Ruby. Thrift In a Nutshell Essentially thrift is a serialization and RPC framework that allows you to communicate between programs that are not necessarily written in the same language. Thrift is used by defining data types...

From time to time I think all developers have done some form of benchmarking. I recently discovered Caliper which is according to the site - “Caliper is Google’s open-source framework for writing, running and viewing the results of Java Microbenchmarks”. I am aware that micro-benchmarking can be misleading depending on...