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Firefox OS Peak - First Impressions (Part 1)

May 6, 2013

On April 23rd, the Firefox OS developer preview phones became available in Europe - and were sold out in a few hours. The demand was so overwhelming that the supplier geeksphone had to shut down...

Eclipse Kepler Milestone 7, available for download

May 3, 2013

Spring has certainly sprung on the west coast of Canada, and that means we are into the Eclipse Kepler endgame. Milestone 7 is the last Kepler milestone before we start rolling out release candidates...

How high can you raise the bar?

May 3, 2013

You have read the books. You are a clean coder. You know your language, your tools and libraries and you know exactly what matters: Well crafted software, steadily adding value, and of course you are...

State of the Android Gradle Build System

May 2, 2013

Building an Android project can be challenging at times. The Android SDK ships with a set of helpful ant scripts, but has its shortcomings. It mainly lacks a well-populated dependency infrastructure...

When an exception gets lost

Apr 25, 2013

Image via CC from Paul Gorbould Recently I fell into the lost exception pitfall - when an exception thrown in a try block gets lost because another exception is thrown in the finally block. It...

EMF Dos and Don´ts #7

EMF is a very powerful framework and with power comes…responsibility. You can achieve great things with a minimum of effort using EMF, but if something goes wrong, you can also spend hours...