Android Development – requires minSdk API 30
It was too good to be true to begin with! Android developer wants to create a quick full text search for an international audience with case-insensitivity.
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Development – a living document
Inspiring content, see inside! Collection of things I’ve read during the years, and I keep referring back to them.
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Development – How to use it to help you write clean, focused tests
Magic one-liner with powerful behaviour Tests need data, let’s see how can we create them using JFixture.
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Development – Suprisingly simple steps in the right order
with full reproducible example I had an interview for which I created a GIT repo, but I wanted to import it into my personal monolyth SVN repo.
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Android Development – at it's worst
I challenge you to find anything more inconsistent than this! So you read somewhere that Android supports <font> tags to color string resources, when used with Resources#getText()? Well, yeah, except…
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Android Development – Spoiler alert: not available out of the box
A saga of finding out, that I can't use them without external dependencies. I wanted to do a simple check to see whether Xalan’s extension functions are available. This would’ve helped speeding up an XML-to-CSV transformation a bit.
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Web Development – Cheat sheet for formatting tags
All-in-one visual medley of most formatting options I use in markdown on this website. I created this blog more than half a year ago and a lot of convetion I tried to introduce was lost in memory. This document will help to remember what’s possible and how it will look like.
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Development – Quick walkthrough
Full process of how I go through a pull request for a GitHub fork. Many times when you ask for a feature in a GitHub issue, you’re welcomed with: Can you create a PR please?… even if it’s a one-character typo. Here’s how I create a PR.
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Web Development – Make developing a website easier
Have you ever found that Jekyll or one of its components is lacking a feature? Jekyll is nice if you like the defaults, but as soon as you start customizing you run into walls. Here are some tips to make it less painful.
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Android Development – Detailed walkthrough
The Android operating system does a thread dump whenever it receives SIGQUIT signal. However you need an unlocked device to send that signal. Fear not, there’s a workaround to get the exact same thread dump with a little more effort on a production device with a debuggable application.
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