Working with GeoLocations

Are you looking for an API that can perform the following GeoLocation functions Find distance between two points Find extreme points i.e. points with min/max latitude and longitude from a center point, for a given distance Find point of interest near you These days we use GeoLocation related services in almost all the applications and [...]

Working with Git

A video blog / screencast to help you get started with Git.

Creating table renderers in JavaFx

In this post, you’ll learn to create your custom renderer for a cell or a header of a table in JavaFx. A table which is apparently a swing JTable wrapped in a node of JavaFx using SwingComponent class. In the following application I’ll not only use these renderers, but will also provide solution to the [...]

Building a Hadoop Cluster using VirtualBox

Getting a few spare machines to start learning a NoSQL database or distributed software in early stages looks like an overkill($$). This blog post addresses creating a Ubuntu based Virtual machine for running Hadoop and automation of virtual machine (VM) creation from a given disk images using VirtualBox. While starting with NoSQL group at Xebia we decided [...]

Android UI development tools

Today I had a pleasure of attending one of Google’s Android Developer Conference by Rajdeep Dua ,Thanks to Rajdeep Dua I came to know some of android tools (by Google as well as third party not integrated with IDE)  available in the market to enhance UI application development. Before we start looking through the list of [...]