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Being alone is not being lonely
I have started meditating in 2014, thanks to Francesca. I was coming from a very hard year: working in the sport event business is no joke when it comes to stressful environment. However, I was thinking I was doing OK: new year, new job, new city, new work domain. What could possibly go wrong? Well,…
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Push vs Pull: air conditioning system
By Ivan Morgillo, Sasa Sekulic and Fabrizio Chignoli This article has been excerpted from Grokking ReactiveX. After a life of imperative programming, switching to a reactive mindset could seem challenging: “Why should I give up all the control and bend to this <data are in control> thing?” Let’s look at it in an everyday life scenario:…
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GDG Geneva — July event
GDG Geneva is a small GDG, but we try hard 😊 Last Monday we had our July event, and, despite the tremendous heat, spent more than one hour talking about MVP on Android. I prepared a small Android app to demonstrate how we can create an app that fetches data from a backend and shows…
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My week at Droidcon Zagreb and App Builders
Last week was quite intense for me. For the first time I had two conferences in two countries in 3 days. I’m definitely too old for this 😜 Droidcon Zagreb Droidcon Zagreb started like this: The moment they dropped us at the hotel, we got a bag full of gifts and candy! There were plenty of…
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Running Android Unit Tests before Git Push
This is a quick note about a Git hook I use to double check that everything is fine before pushing to our remote Git repo. This covers a paranoid scenario, I know, but sometimes a refactoring can go wrong and lose pieces between production code and tests: every now and then, one of my tests…
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Android Library AAR and Javadoc
As an Android developer, I’m used to ask Android Studio/Intellij Idea for documentation constantly. I have even replaced the shortcut: now, it’s F1, the old-fashion help key. When I want to know about a method or a class, I hit F1 and the JavaDoc shows up: smooth. How does this works? Story time! The Catapush user…
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Installing Git Cola on OSX
There are tons of Git GUIs out there, ready to be installed with a couple of clicks. However, over the years I have always used Git Cola because it seems to be the only one providing one specific feature I use very often: Stage Selected Lines Many GUIs provide only something like this: Stage Diff Hunk Hunks…
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Text replacement, ASCII emoji and Slack
Humans are creatures of habits and programmers… well, even more! Working remotely, I spent lots of hours interacting with people using a keyboard: https://giphy.com/gifs/EtB1yylKGGAUg/html5 Not like that! I mean typing! Nowadays, typing emotions is a common thing: we use emojis. They are everywhere: Slack and Facebook have them. Not Twitter (Yeah, I know! I just…
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ADB over WiFi
A few days ago, I built a device holder to place as many devices as possible on my desk without losing my sanity (https://medium.com/@hamen/first-hardware-project-of-2016-device-holder-4ef25670c507). One more step in that direction is solving the charging issue: N devices, with turned on screen, wifi and gsm data vs Powered USB Hub Poor USB Hub cannot win against…
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First hardware project of 2016: device holder
“Ingredients” Old TV/VCR shelf Velcro Scissors 5 minutes /! Rocket science alert /! Flip the shelf. Place velcro on both the shelf and the back of the device. Attach the device.