In one of the Android applications that I was creating the requirement was to have graphs and charts to present the data in a meaningful way to the user. With no direct charting API support in Android to address graphs and charts creation, I explored few other possible solutions. This blog does not focus on [...]
Filed under: Android, Blog, Tools | 36 Comments »
Please note that this blog assumes that the reader has basic knowledge of OSGi and how to create bundles. If you are a beginner you may like to read the Getting Started with OSGi. Sometimes in an existing application you may want to use the capabilities of the OSGi framework. For example, in my recent project [...]
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It is highly likely that if you have at any point of your development cycle fiddled around with the feature called – wmode, then you have landed into some trouble or the other. Brief introduction to wmode: ‘wmode’ stands for Windowless Mode. The wmode parameter is available in the object/embed tags used to place the [...]
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In web applications we have functionalities like auto suggestions , rating objects, adding to favourites etc which repeat themselves in an application and across applications. So it demands to think about implementing a generic way of rating and adding to user favourites etc and follow DRY principle. Recently in one of my Grails projects we [...]
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I have been working on Grails recently and am amazed with the productivity gains it gives. Grails is great for giving you a kick-start, it uses convention over configuration and gives you things such as ORM, transaction management, dependency injection among others, without you writing a single line of configuration. I decided to mimic the [...]
Filed under: Hibernate, JPA, Spring | 7 Comments »
