random performace thoughts
just wanted to lay things out so i can see them more clearly. if it doesn't make sense to you, dear readers, please excuse me :) so, we have many hashes (maps, containing cached data), but due to our...
View ArticleOSSP mm - Shared Memory Allocation
i played a few days with the mm shared memory lib. i must say i liked it!it is easy to understand and easy to implement into existing code.of course the lack of new()/delete() is somewhat limiting, but...
View Articleusing apache qpid with persistence
that's just a quick post about two weeks struggle with a problem which was eventually solved in half an hour.as at my company we (i) decided to use apache QPID as a message queue framework, we...
View Articlelinux threads and forking (and zeroc ice)
so we have this nice icegrid setup with python nodes tied with sip to underlying c++ code. on new rpc call, ice creates a new thread to handle it, but as the underlying c++ code is not threadsafe we...
View Articlesimple android service not starting
i'm new to android.but it seems a nice platform so far.been away from java for quite some time and find some syntax shortcuts are quite amazing but on the problem at hand;i wanted to write a very...
View Articlelog4cxx insights
i really liked log4cxx and while i did a thorough research, turned out there were a few things i hadn't realised log4cxx featured or was capable of- hierarchy is awesome, i had used it with test cases...
View Articlefun with specialized function templates in c++
i was quite sad a few days ago for a reason some of you may be familiar with all to well:a program was working fine in debug, but didn't return results in release build. luckily this was not in...
View Articlemy first complete android app
well, what can i say - it is fun to program for android; i enjoy java and the android apis are ok.my own android phone is quite old, running android 1.5 so i had to write for api level 3.i see some...
View Articlehello github
i posted the code for the android app i mentioned earlier in github here: https://github.com/esdee-git/missed-callssince the app itself was my coding test for android platform, a good decision was to...
View Articleandroid camera.open() freeze
weirdest thing happened while i was experimenting with android.hardware.camera api.i was testing on a 2.2 device and of course there were the problems with Camera.getNumberOfCameras() missing etc, but...
View Articlerotate image in android apps
i guess i'm starting to learn a thing or two about organizing my stuff, and as result decided to post the result of one task that is a part of a bigger task, that is a part of an idea that i'm already...
View Articleimage is rotated after camera preview in portrait mode (android)
this was quite a headache.in surface preview (portrait) everything is fine, but once you save the image it turns out it is stored rotated on 90 degrees. what the heck?!it seems a huge problem with some...
View ArticleAndroVM network setup for android apps testing
not sure how i got to http://therockncoder.blogspot.com/2013/06/using-virtualbox-android-emulator.html, but the idea to have a faster emulation for android apps testing was great so when the time came...
View ArticleThe provider did not return a ProviderManifest instance (VS 2013,...
checking out EntityFramework 6 code-first and encountering various errors during the process :)this is more of a saved hint how to deal with this...found in the comments...
View Articlewpf, entity framework, sqlite and all that jazz
so i wanted to do something with wpf and of course data had to be involved. for this project i first played a bit with velocitydb, then some more with ravendb - both great nosql databases, but their...
View Articlelibgdx and how i solved some problems i had
one has to keep him self busy, so this summer, as being away from the sea, i decided to go back to some android programming.my initial idea was to create an app, but for UI i wanted to use a gaming...
View Articleplaying with GO and setting up Atom for golang
i thought it might be good idea to make my first steps with Go (or is it GO?) in an IDE, so after a quick search i decided i don't want to go as far as eclipse and gave a try to LiteIDE.and, for the...
View Article"Do Something!" with Go, JQuery and Delicious api
it is best when learning a new programming language to exercise on some practical problem.well, one problem i have is having to put up with plugins for delicious, so i decided to write a server to...
View Articlesimple BroadcastReceiver for Android missed calls app + tips for...
i wanted to play a bit with Android programming (again), so first i decided to try the latest AndroidStudio. I was originally Android-ing on Eclipse and gave only a quick test to the then-new...
View Articlecreate docker image for your go application
just wanted to give a try to docker so i gave a try Jsomehow i thought that docker is a really magical tool and you just point it to your executable and it gathers all dependencies and pops the image...
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