Makefiles are really good at one thing, managing dependencies between files. In other words, make makes sure all files that depend on another file are updated when that file changes. We tell make how […]
Android networking doesn’t sound very radical nowadays. Actually, it’s hard to find apps that don’t have some sort of network dependency. Some of them won’t even start without a stable network. Others may just degrade gracefully […]
Gradle has the ability to check if a task is up to date and more importantly skip the task if it finds that the task input is unchanged compared to the latest build. This […]
If you, like me, prefer to use Ubuntu on any hardware you use, and want it completely encrypted, this is for you. These are instructions on how to install Ubuntu 14.04 or later with […]
I sometimes Pocket interesting web pages in order to read them at a later occasion. Shorter articles or blog posts I often read directly on the laptop or phone, but longer ones I put […]
If you’ve ever had the need of creating self signed certificates you may start out feeling like it’s not a straightforward stroll in the park, so here is a blog post that might help […]
If you have installed the new Windows Phone 8.1 SDK and having problem with some of the emulators your are probably not alone. This message appears for emulator 4.7 and 5.5 inch: The specified […]
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Inspired by my colleagues Anders Janmyr, who wrote the book (or at least a […]
When working with Java you will sooner or later come across Maven and Maven modules. Before you start developing a new module feature, upstream modules need to be built, and before you finish you […]
Today I gave a little thought to the problem of translating apps. Having support for more languages than English provides you than a vastly larger market, and with the modern App Stores it’s easy […]
I stumbled upon another one of those mind mapping applications called Scapple.app. As I am always looking for ways to improve and change ways of working I had to try it out. I regularly […]
Giter8 is a command line tool that helps you to easily setup your project structure from templates published on github. It is written in Scala and based on sbt, but it is not restricted […]
Microsoft has launched a Team Foundation Service (http://tfspreview.com/). It is Team Foundation Server in the cloud. There is source control, continuous builds, test running and agile planning functions. All this functionality in the cloud. […]
When working with our mission of creating an organization wide test strategy I was thinking about quality related problems we have in some projects. I realized that the expected quality is not explicitly stated […]
New to Capistrano? Read my previous and more introductory blog post on Capistrano – Remote builds with Capistrano. Are you using Capistrano and are confused why the user environment, the PATH for example, is […]
Capistrano is a very nice open source tool for executing commands on one or multiple remote servers via SSH. Capistrano is written in Ruby and uses a rake-like DSL for its tasks. Its main […]