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Nov 25, 2014
Vert.x Fat Jar Deployments
Fat jar deployments in Vert.x can simplify the delivery of your software greatly if you don’t need the fine-grained, runtime control of a full installation . One drawback is limited options for module dependencies, especially ...
Nov 18, 2014
UDP Server with Spring Boot and Reactor
UDP support was added to the 1.1.0 release of project Reactor, but the web has been pretty quiet about it since. There are some good existing technologies out there if you need to write a ...
Nov 11, 2014
StringTemplates in Groovy
em { font-style: oblique; } code { font-family: monospace; } I was looking for some some string templating in Groovy a while back and found that Groovy supports it nicely, including something called SimpleTemplateEngine, which ...
Building a Kiosk Application in Android 5.0 (Lollipop)
Android L introduced “Screen Pinning” API. This allows an application to temporarily restrict a user from navigating away from your activity. When Screen Pinning in enabled, it restricts a user from gaining access to notification ...