Earlier I wrote about issues with the new offer from Google - the “Inbox” mail service. Recently Google released updates for its Inbox web …
valvalues in Scala are, by specification, const, or final in Javaspeak. That means once assigned, they cannot be …
When it comes to SQL queries, there are two ways you can execute them from your program, whether it targets Android or not. One is ad hoc - create an …
I was writing a piece of code in Scala, which was supposed to de-serialize some Java object, previously serialized elsewhere. However, I kept seeing …
Recent versions of Idea (14 at the time of writing) play along quite nicely with SBT (Simple Build Tool - not so simple in fact). It can load project …
I gave Eclipse its fair chance. To be honest, I gave it more than one chance over the years. Each and every time it was a disappointment. It is …
All software engineers hate to write the same thing twice. However, at the moment it seems unavoidable when one wants to support both iOS and Android. …
DSL (Domain Specific Languages) are, as the name implies, software development languages created for a specific niche or limited domain. Where could …
Scala is a great language. One of its strengths is the effortless interoperability with Java. However, given the fact that the language is still …
Yesterday I received an invitation to Google Inbox - a new mail service from Google on top of the famous GMail. I wanted to use it because it provided …