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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 EE 7 Community Survey Results!

by Markus Eisele on December 15th, 2012

Work on Java EE 7 presses on under JSR 342. Things are shaping up nicely and Java EE 7 is now in the Early Draft Review stage. In beginning of November Oracle posted a little community ...

Google Guava BiMaps

by Tom Jefferys on December 14th, 2012

Next up on my tour of Guava, is the BiMap, another useful collection type. It’s pretty simple really, a BiMap is simply a two way map. Inverting a Map A normal java map is a set ...

The frustrations of the development

by Aleksandar Balalovski on December 14th, 2012

It’s busy period always before Christmas. Clients have ideas and request, we [at 2dwarfs] have started projects of our own, so we have interference. And although it’s always ...

Increasing heap size – beware of the Cobra Effect

by Nikita Salnikov Tarnovski on December 14th, 2012

The term ‘Cobra effect’ stems from an anecdote set at the time of British rule of colonial India. The British government was concerned about the number of venomous cobra snakes. ...

The Java Advent Calendar

by Attila Mihaly Balazs on December 14th, 2012

The Java Advent Calendar is winter-festivities themed blog featuring (at least) one Java-related post per day between the 1st and 24th of December. The concept is rooted in the tradition ...

How to Create Extensible Java Applications

by Remon Sinnema on December 14th, 2012

Many applications benefit from being open to extension. This post describes two ways to implement such extensibility in Java. Extensible Applications Extensible applications are applications ...

Of Hacking Enums and Modifying ‘final static’ Fields

by Heinz Kabutz on December 14th, 2012

In this newsletter, originally published in The Java Specialists’ Newsletter Issue 161 we examine how it is possible to create enum instances in the Sun JDK, by using the reflection ...

Using Builder Pattern in JUnit tests

by Attila Mihaly Balazs on December 13th, 2012

This is not intended to be a heavily technical post. The goal of this post is to give you some guidelines to make your JUnit testing life more easy, to enable you to write complex scenarios ...

The feedback cycle and runtime governance

by Mackie Mathew on December 13th, 2012

Introduction Runtime governance can be defined as the process which allows you to control and manage parameters in your runtime execution environment. A runtime execution environment ...

The Wrong Notion of Time

by Sandro Mancuso on December 13th, 2012

No one wakes up in the morning and say “Today I’m gonna screw up. Today I’m gonna piss my boss and all my team mates off writing the worst code I could possibly write”. ...

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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

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Java EE 7 Community Survey Results!

Google Guava BiMaps

The frustrations of the development

Increasing heap size – beware of the Cobra Effect

The Java Advent Calendar

How to Create Extensible Java Applications

Of Hacking Enums and Modifying ‘final static’ Fields

Using Builder Pattern in JUnit tests

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