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A collection of official Android documentation that I wrote while employed at Google, with editorial tweaks from the amazing tech writers I worked with!
Includes build and project structure overviews and details on dependency resolution and maintenance.
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I've been teaching an Android class for Johns Hopkins University since 2012. It's gone through many iterations over time, from development environments to languages to UI frameworks.
Most days I wish I just taught math. Math doesn't change like this every year.
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I taught a single-term Domain-Specific Languages class for Johns Hopkins University in 2018.
Read on for the video playlist link!
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I've been teaching a live Kotlin class for Johns Hopkins University since 2020.
Read on for the latest video playlist link!
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Android Studio makes it crazy easy to locate deadlocks! I'll explain how in this video.
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Let's learn Kotlin from a Java point of view. We'll start by looking at some basics of Variables, Values, Classes, Properties and Constructors.
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A Tech Talk I gave for Johns Hopkins University June 28, 2017.
What is a Domain-Specific Language? How can we use one for code-generation?
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Talks on Gang-of-Four Design Patterns: Mediator, Observer, Javabeans, Model-View-Controller, Command, Template Method, Strategy and Null Object, Composite and Visitor, Factory Method, Abstract Factory and Builder
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A tech talk I gave for Johns Hopkins University on Oct 6, 2014 on Android Intents and Fragments.
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A Java Users Group talk from September 2014 I presented on new features in Java 8: Lambdas and Streams.
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A Java Users Group talk from July 2013 I presented on new features in JCode Generation with xText and xTend.
We'll use xText to create a custom language by specifying a grammar, read the content into a model, and generate code using xTend!
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A Java Users Group talk I presented on enumerations in Java.
I cover:
- The old "type-safe enumeration pattern"
- Using enums for values
- Adding data and methods to enums
- Using enums for the Gang-of-Four State Pattern
- Using enums to emulate function pointers in Java
- EnumSet and EnumMap
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I presented a talk on the Template Method and Strategy Patterns to the Columbia, Maryland Java Users Group on 10/13/2011.
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I presented a talk on Dynamic Proxies to the Columbia, Maryland Java Users Group on 12/02/2010.
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A Java Users Group talk from May 2010 I presented on Eclipse tips and tricks.
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I presented a talk on Java Annotations to the Columbia, Maryland Java Users Group on 1/19/2010.
This is a very deep dive into
- Annotation Concepts
- Creating annotation processors
- Using annotations at compile time and runtime
- Generating code from annotations
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A video tutorial on ANTLR 3.x
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There should never exist any language feature such that adding a new type to a referenced package can break your existing code. Import-on-demand (aka "start imports") is one such feature... And it's evil...
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I'm really tired of hearing folks incorrectly state "primitives are passed by value, objects are passed by reference".
So I'm gonna rant, and you're gonna listen...
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Maintainable applications can be quite tricky to develop. One of the keys to creating such a beast, is to properly layer your application.
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Property editors are a way to make your bean more user-friendly. Bean builder tools can determine quite a lot about your bean just by looking at it and its corresponding BeanInfo class, but they usually have only very simple methods of editing the properties in the bean.
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Let's get familiar with Java Layout Managers!
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