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How to create blueprints for your OSGi building blocks

Aug 11, 2012

With OSGi we are able to implement building blocks for modular applications. Dependency injection frameworks support us in writing flexible, testable and clean code. The “Blueprint Container …

To catch or not to catch... Throwable

Ivan Furnadjiev
Aug 8, 2012

Many developers still catch Throwable in their try/catch statements. Is this a good idea? I don’t think so. As all of you know, Throwable is a generic superclass for all exception and errors in Java. …

Workplace safety

Matthias Kempka
Aug 2, 2012

“This is just about getting some numbers.” “Oh, and we need some basic UI, nothing fancy though.” “We should have some alternative storage or exporting options, you know, keep it simple, just export …

Design for your platform

Moritz Post
Aug 1, 2012

Application design and user experience has become one of the most important topics in the mobile/tablet/startup world. While some people claim the designer is the rockstar of the team i would still …

Loading, caching and displaying images in Android (Part 1)

Moritz Post
Jul 31, 2012

Displaying an image in a mobile application is one of the most common tasks for app developers. Nearly every application displays some kind of graphics. Surprisingly, it can be quite challenging to …

Accessing multiple private GitHub repositories without a dedicated build user

Jul 30, 2012

We have been using GitHub at EclipseSource for roughly 2 years now. Using it as a company means that we are hosting all our internal projects, products and many customer projects on GitHub. GitHub was …