April 15, 2018

Abstracting APIs

Assume you’re developing an XKCD comic browser on Android. The API offers two endpoints: info.0.json, which retrieves the JSON describing the current comic, comicNumber/info.0.json retrieves the JSON describing a specific...

December 03, 2017

Simple Java Puzzler

My first ever blog post was about Java operators I thought I knew. Ironically, after working with Java daily for the last couple of years, I still find things I...

February 25, 2017

Builders and Required Params

Ever since Effective Java 2 came out, the builder pattern became a defacto standard for instantiating objects with multiple parameters. NutritionFacts cocaCola = new NutritionFacts.Builder(240, 8) .calories(100) .fat(0) .sodium(35) .carbohydrate(27)...

August 22, 2015

Creating AndroidDeviceNames

A few days ago, I open sourced AndroidDeviceNames, a tiny Android library that transforms the device model into a user-friendly name. For example, SM-N910W8 becomes Samsung Galaxy Note 4 with...

May 30, 2015

Sync folders with Python

Manually comparing and synchronizing two folders can be tedious. Add long, confusing and very similar filenames and it’s no fun at all. We recently faced a similar situation at work....