Software Development - { Coding && Architecture }

...and a Happy New Year to everyone.

Thank you Samsung! My Samsung Galaxy Tab finally got upgraded to Android 4 (4.0.4). For too long I have lived with version 3 which in my opinion was a major mistake from Google. The tab feels a lot quicker in graphics and responsiveness. But I still don't understand why there is a need for a screen-dump-button in the lower button menu. How often do you need to take a screen dump?

Due to a couple of reasons, but mainly because my computer has been reinstalled, I had to setup a new development environment for my LegLogger web application. My choice was to either continue using myeclipse , or to install a plain eclipse. My choice fell on plain eclipse because it’s free and I don’t get too many functions I won’t use. The setup of my different Android projects was no problem but the web application were more troublesome.   I realized that creating a web application with myeclipse (as I did some years ago when I first created the LegLogger web) is very easy and the environment do have some nice features that are missing from the plain eclipse. However, and this is the main problem I think, you don’t get the full control of which jar packages are needed and used by the application. Sure, it’s nice to click “Use Hibernate” and everything just works, but then you don’t know which packages are required for Hibernate to work.   So I had to spend a coupl...

I have just started to look at REST and how to use it in future projects. The list below are just some of the sites I have visited and found interesting: Building Web Services the REST Way How-to: REST Web services demystified

If you like the unix command touch and want to to something similar in Windows, i.e. change the time stamp of a file, then there is not built-in command for that. Instead use the copy command like this: copy /b foo.txt +,, If you really want a touch command, then place it in a batch file called touch...