Cocoa Touch added API for presenting a view controller in a popup bubble in iPhone OS 3.2, the responsible class is named UIPopoverController. One would guess that this new class is a subclass of UIViewController, just like UINavigationController is, but that is not the case. One would also guess that in functionality many ideas for [...]

Google Collections is a natural evolution from the standard collections API in Java, bringing a much broader range of functionality to the existing collections and also providing several new collections for its users. The library plays nice with the standard collections and uses existing functionality where possible. Here is a list of useful facts before [...]

All APIs have end-users. How and whether these users use a certain API depends on how useful the API is to them. This in turn is determined by what problem the API solves, how easy it is to learn and understand, and how easy it is to use. This article will give some (perhaps obvious) [...]