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Android Game Postmortem – ArkDroid Development

by Ilias Tsagklis on December 30th, 2011

Hello guys, As you might have noticed, we have recently delved into the world of mobile game programming. This was done after creating JCG Studios, an independent mobile game studio based on Athens, Greece. JCG here stands for Just Cool Games, it is our other acronym, except for Java Code Geeks of course. Our platform of choice is Android and our first attempt ... Read more »

Funny Source Code Comments

by Ilias Tsagklis on July 19th, 2011

I recently stumbled upon an awesome Stack Overflow thread, entitled “What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?”. As you might have guessed, it is a collection of funny source code comments, provided by developers all over the world. Take a look at it, it could definitely make your day. I am reposting here my personal favorites ... Read more »

Android Game Development Tutorials

by Byron Kiourtzoglou on June 15th, 2011

Some months ago we received an email from a fellow Java developer, Tamas Jano, asking to be part of our JCG partners program. To our surprise he maintains a blog named “Against The Grain” debating about game development for the Android platform. I have been reading all of his articles since then and I must admit that his writings have been an inspiration ... Read more »

Android Google Maps Tutorial

by Ilias Tsagklis on February 7th, 2011

The Android platform provides easy and tight integration between Android applications and Google Maps. The well established Google Maps APIis used under the hood in order to bring the power of Google Maps to your Android applications. In this tutorial we will see how to incorporate Google Maps into an Android app.Installing the Google APIs In order to be able ... Read more »

“Android Full Application Tutorial” series

by Ilias Tsagklis on October 19th, 2010

Continuing our tutorials on Android here at JavaCodeGeeks, I am going to provide a number of articles on how to build a full Android application from scratch. The app will mainly be useful for performing movies and actors lookups. The TMDb API will be used for searching and links at the mobile version of IMDB will be provided. All the app development lifecycle ... Read more »

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Java EE6 Events: A lightweight alternative to JMS

by Ilias Tsagklis on October 19th, 2011

The feature I’m going to talk about today is the event mechanism that is in java EE 6. The general idea is to fire an event and let an event listener pick it up. I have created this ...

Best Of The Week – 2011 – W42

by Ilias Tsagklis on October 18th, 2011

Hello guys, Time for the “Best Of The Week” links for the week that just passed. Here are some links that drew JavaCodeGeeks attention: * Java Reloaded: Oracle is finally ...

Even Backlogs Need Grooming

by John Sonmez on October 18th, 2011

Imagine this common scenario if you will. One of your friends calls you up and says: “Hey, would you mind helping me move on Saturday, I am getting 4 or 5 people together and we are ...

Services, practices & tools that should exist in any software development house, part 2

by Paris Apostolopoulos on October 18th, 2011

Here we go again. In the first part we have gone through some basic tools like Code Repository, Issue Tracker and Wiki. We have also listed services like a builder server, ideas tools ...

How to Get Unstuck

by Jens Schauder on October 17th, 2011

Jeff Wofford singles out “getting stuck” as A Programmer’s Greatest Enemy. Stuck as getting stuck with a problem that you just can’t solve. This situation gets frustrating fast. ...

Monitoring OpenJDK from the CLI

by Mark Wolfe on October 17th, 2011

Currently I do quite a bit of work in and around the Java virtual machine (JVM), most of the time on Linux. When things go awry and I am trying to establish why, I reach for the Java ...

How extreme is extreme programming?

by Johannes Brodwall on October 17th, 2011

The term Extreme Programming (XP) was coined in the nineties. Originally, it described a set of practices that have mostly been widely adopted today. Among these practices were continuous ...

Programming antipatterns

by Glenn Dejaeger on October 14th, 2011

Did you ever do a code review where you recorded an extremely high amount of WTF/m? And did you ever wonder what the cause of all this bad code is? Most of the time cause number ...

Sending emails with Java

by Antonio Santiago on October 14th, 2011

I start writing this post as a simple “how to send an email” using Java, but later I found I need to briefly explain more things. So, here is this kind of all in one summary about ...

DI in Scala: Cake Pattern pros & cons

by Adam Warski on October 14th, 2011

I’ve been looking at alternatives for java-style DI and DI containers which would use pure Scala; a promising candidate is the Cake Pattern (see my earlier blog post for information ...

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Android Game Postmortem – ArkDroid Development

Funny Source Code Comments

Android Game Development Tutorials

Android Google Maps Tutorial

“Android Full Application Tutorial” series

What's New Here?Subscribe to RSS feed

Java EE6 Events: A lightweight alternative to JMS

Best Of The Week – 2011 – W42

Even Backlogs Need Grooming

Services, practices & tools that should exist in any software development house, part 2

How to Get Unstuck

Monitoring OpenJDK from the CLI

How extreme is extreme programming?

Programming antipatterns

Sending emails with Java

DI in Scala: Cake Pattern pros & cons

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