This is a short Scala post to explain what the difference is between val and var. I was showing some Scala code to a co-worker this past week and he was asking what the difference was between val and var. It is quite simple:

Scala 2.10 was released yesterday and I decided to take a look at it. But first what is Scala anyway? From the Scala site: Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and typ…

Last day of the training and I am glad it is over...this stuff is draining Here is what was covered today Network Programming Low Level TCP/IP Protocols IPv4 and IPv6 UDP Multicast TCP/IP Message Based protocols HTTP Connections framework…

Java Day 4 The Collections Framework Legacy Container Classes A container is an object that holds a collection of other objects An array is a simple container. Arrays have a couple of limitations . The size is fixed . All the members of the arra…

Today is day one of the Java class I am taking this week. I am just dumping some of the stuff that I am hearing about, some of the stuff I might already know. Java is a general purpose language, it is interperted, output is by…

This week eleven coworkers and myself will be in Java training for most of the time, I haven't touched Java since 2001. I did a bunch of research over the 4 day weekend to get a little head start. I installed Netbeans and Eclipse to see how they are…

If you go on Google and look for an example on how to parse xml in java you will find plenty of examples using the saxparser. And you will see them doing something like this. package be.baes.thisDevelopersLifePlayer.rss; import android.util.Log;…

After the writing of your first application and the first tests. It is time to make our application a bit more testable by using dependency injection. I choose to use RoboGuice for this, which is a subproject of Guice made especially for the Android sub-culture.

Getting into Android development is easy. Just download Eclipse and the Android SDK and you are on your way to brilliant things. And making your first app is easy. One of the first apps we wrote was a close button. In other words. Put a button on the screen and when the user clicks it then close it.

This post details my first adventure into developing for the Android platform and the steps taken to get the HelloWorld application to run. Download the Linux SDK from: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html Extract the archive and take note of…