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How to Hire Programmers
I figured out how to hire programmers while saving time/money using a four step process - HR/Tech Screening, Programming Challenge and culture fit eval.
2014.01.13Read →Robolectric ShadowTaskStackBuilder
Robolectric has no ShadowTaskStackBuilder, so tests relying on TaskStackBuilder fail. Here's a minimal custom shadow to get them passing again.
2014.01.06Read →Working Remote
Happier & more productive employees work remotely. Working remote has proven to be more effective for a company. This is a review of the book, Remote.
2013.11.12Read →Android Bootstrap and Android Studio
Porting Android Bootstrap to Gradle and Android Studio, plus AppCompat, a navigation drawer, and Picasso -- and why raising minSdkVersion to 15 makes sense.
2013.11.09Read →Loading Remote Images in Android with UrlImageView
Tired of scattering Picasso calls across your Android codebase? Wrap it in a custom UrlImageView with Dagger injection. Code included.
2013.08.15Read →Android Bootstrap Updated to Include a Navigation Drawer
Android Bootstrap gets a navigation drawer via SimonVT's Menu Drawer library, plus updated Dagger, Otto, and HTTP-Request dependencies.
2013.07.09Read →Android Studio – Tips and Tricks Part 2
Part 4 of my Android Studio series: create layout files on the fly, generate XML drawables in seconds, and speed up day to day coding.
2013.06.21Read →Android Studio – Tips and Tricks Part 1
Part 3 of my Android Studio tips and tricks series: quick file navigation, plus creating string and dimens.xml resources on the fly.
2013.06.06Read →Android Studio – Setting up an Emulator
Part 2 of my Android Studio video series: where the SDK actually lives now, and how to set up and launch an emulator for development.
2013.05.20Read →Getting Started with Android Studio
Learn the how to use Android Studio in this quick Getting Started video, produced by best Selling Android development author Donn Felker
2013.05.16Read →Hi Performance JSON Parsing in Android
Learn how to parse large JSON files and streams (from API's) using Jackson's Streaming Parser.
2013.04.15Read →Ruby 1.9.3 [BUG] Segmentation with rspec
A leftover binding_of_caller gem in the Gemfile caused segmentation faults running rspec under Ruby 1.9.3. Here's how I tracked it down.
2013.03.21Read →