Highly recommend this book - Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford - one of the best non-fiction books I've read in ages - innovations from Robots to The Pill, Welfare State to Google Search - and there's a BBC podcast series [...]
Having used Gherkin in a couple of different testing projects, I thought I'd provide a Quick Intro to Gherkin, for those not familiar with it. So far, I've used Gherkin as a way of documenting tests, rather than automating tests, but it's used in both scenarios. [...]
I'm about half way through reading this book and highly recommend it, if you have an interest in the history of three of the biggest tech companies - Apple, Google and Microsoft. It details the way these companies have approached the internet and their tech products [...]
I've now finished working through my first book on Android Development - 'Beginning Android Application Development' by Wrox. This book has given me a good introduction to Android development and I'd definitely recommend this book to those beginning Android Development. I really like the way its [...]
Continuing learning Android Development using the book 'Beginning Android Application Development' from Wrox. Today, completed Chapter 11 - Publishing Android Applications. This featured: - How to prepare your apps for deployment - Exporting your app as an APK file and signing it with a new certificate [...]
Continuing learning Android Development using the book 'Beginning Android Application Development' from Wrox. Yesterday, completed Chapter 10 - Developing Android Services. This featured: - Reasons for needing a service - Creating services that run in the background - How to perform long-running tasks in a separate [...]
Continuing learning Android Development using the book 'Beginning Android Application Development' from Wrox. Just completed Chapter 9 - Location-Based Services - This featured: - displaying Google Maps in your Android application - obtaining a Google Maps API key - using MapView in your app - from [...]
Continuing learning Android Development using the book 'Beginning Android Application Development' from Wrox. Now working on Chapter 8 - Messaging and Networking - currently looking at Networking and downloading binary data, such as bitmaps. This Chapter also features Web services, so that will be good to [...]
Currently learning Android Development using the book 'Beginning Android Application Development' from Wrox. Have worked through Chapter 2 - Activities and Intents - quite a lot of information to cover there, including:- - Creating an activity - Life cycle of an activity - The function of [...]
Now learning another aspect of Java development - this time for Mobile devices - and specifically Android devices. Working through the book 'Beginning Android Application Development' from Wrox. Have got the Android SDK and Platform downloaded and setup, using Eclipse plus the Android Development Tools plugin. [...]
Now on Chapter 10 (of 10) of the 'SCJP 6.0 Study Guide' book. The book gives you a really in-depth knowledge of Java, although sometimes they overdo some explanations and leave you unclear/unsure as to how a particular item actually works, in which case a Google [...]
Slowly working through the 'SCJP 6.0 Study Guide' book. Just about to start Chapter 5 - 'Flow Control, Exceptions and Assertions' Have finished the following Chapters: - Chapter 1: Declaration and Access Control - Chapter 2: Object Orientation - Chapter 3: Assignments - Chapter 4: Operators
So far, I've added to my previous knowledge of Java programming through a Webucator course on Java 2 5.0 Fundamentals. Currently working through the book "SCJP 6 Study Guide" with the aim of getting official certification from Oracle as a Java 6 Programmer. The official title [...]
