.NET threads Abort vs Interrrupt

Not an uncommon task in multithreaded programming - what if you want to terminate a background thread, which is blocked at the moment, and then to …

JVM-based web framework

What JVM-based web framework to choose? There seems to be so many out in the big world, and all claim to be better than the rest. Some examples of the …

Google's Inbox

Earlier I wrote about issues with the new offer from Google - the “Inbox” mail service. Recently Google released updates for its Inbox web …

val

values in Scala are, by specification, const, or final in Javaspeak. That means once assigned, they cannot be …

Is it worth using prepared statements on Android?

When it comes to SQL queries, there are two ways you can execute them from your program, whether it targets Android or not. One is ad hoc - create an …

@SerialVersionUID and Android

I was writing a piece of code in Scala, which was supposed to de-serialize some Java object, previously serialized elsewhere. However, I kept seeing …

SBT and IntelliJ Idea

Recent versions of Idea (14 at the time of writing) play along quite nicely with SBT (Simple Build Tool - not so simple in fact). It can load project …

Praise to Idea (and to hell with Eclipse)

I gave Eclipse its fair chance. To be honest, I gave it more than one chance over the years. Each and every time it was a disappointment. It is …

More on multi-platform mobile development

All software engineers hate to write the same thing twice. However, at the moment it seems unavoidable when one wants to support both iOS and Android. …

DSL in Scala

DSL (Domain Specific Languages) are, as the name implies, software development languages created for a specific niche or limited domain. Where could …

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