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Mitch Pronschinske04/18/13
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The Standard Software Architecture is Still 'Big Balls of Mud'

The cause of programmatic pulchritude has been championed by many, from the Literate Programming boomlet of the seventies, the Architecture craze of the eighties, the Patterns Movement of the nineties, and even the burgeoning Software Crafts movement of the current decade, alas, to little apparent effect.

Mitch Pronschinske04/18/13
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Micro-Service Architecture

The service architecture of the new millennium has evolved at the Forward Internet Group into a myriad of small, loosely coupled services. While the system is several years old, almost no service is older than six months. We explore the evolution of this architecture and its impact on the organization and processes.

Mitch Pronschinske04/18/13
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DevBytes: Bitmap Scaling

Learn how the use of BitmapOptions affects the resulting size of a loaded bitmap. Sub-sampling can speed up load times and reduce the need for large bitmaps in memory if your target bitmap size is much smaller.

Mitch Pronschinske04/18/13
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jqMobi Becomes Intel App Framework

Today Intel has launched its revamp of the jqMobi framework as the "Intel App Framework". The new HTML5 development environment is completely free to download and is focused on giving mobile developers a bunch of tools to quickly build web apps.

Mitch Pronschinske04/17/13
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DevBytes: Bitmap Allocation

Learn how to speed up bitmap loading and reduce garbage collection in Android by reusing existing bitmaps.

Mitch Pronschinske04/17/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/17)

Computer dinosaurs still walk the earth. This story, plus a cool Mac Terminal easter egg, a prominent game written in QBASIC, and a Python heart monitor that only needs a webcam.

Mitch Pronschinske04/17/13
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Another Look at Application Integration with SwitchYard

If you haven't seen some of the previous introductions to SwitchYard, now's your chance to hear about Red Hat's replacement for JBoss ESB.There's something for everyone in this talk. Especially for Java EE developers.

Mitch Pronschinske04/16/13
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DevBytes: CrossFading Animations

Learn how to use TransitionDrawable to perform a simple cross-fade effect between two drawables in Android applications.

Mitch Pronschinske04/15/13
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Apache Kafka + Apache Zookeeper: A Truly Distributed & Scalable System

In this lightningtalk I will talk about how Kafka is different from other publish-subscribe messaging systems, how it achieves such good performance and how it uses Apache Zookeeper to be a truly distributed- and scalable system.

Mitch Pronschinske04/15/13
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Send and Receive JMS w/ FME

You can add spatial capabilities to your enterprise application by plugging FME Server into it. In this demo you'll see how FME Server can send and receive Java Messaging Service (JMS) messages. We'll use the notification service to send information into an Apache ActiveMQ JMS.

Mitch Pronschinske04/15/13
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Apache Kafka Bypasses The Scaling Issues of JMS

This introduction to Apache Kafka presents a few use cases for using it as an integration point between different systems including standalone Java applications and a Hadoop cluster.

Mitch Pronschinske04/13/13
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DevBytes: Window Animations

Learn how to create custom Window animations to animate between different sub-activities in Android.

Mitch Pronschinske04/11/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/12)

A node v. php v. go benchmarking session and some cool CSS and Mac tools make up this link list. Plus GitHub turns 5 and we get a demo of quantum levitation.

Mitch Pronschinske04/10/13
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Using Android's ObjectAnimator

Learn how to use property animations, specifically ObjectAnimator, to perform various view animations. Compare this approach to that of the ViewAnimations demo, which shows how to achieve similar effects using the pre-3.0 animation APIs.

Mitch Pronschinske04/09/13
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Android View Animations for 2.x and 3.0

Learn how to use pre-Android 3.0 view Animation classes to create various animated UI effects. See also the demo PropertyAnimations, which shows how this is done using the new ObjectAnimator API introduced in Android 3.0.