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Eager vs. Lazy in RxJava

Over the last several years, RxJava has been a staple of Android software development. RxJava has a very high learning curve, and part of…

Aug 1, 2019

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Aug 1, 2019

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Abstract / Extract / Inject

An approach to making your code easier to maintain and modify

Oct 10, 2018

Oct 10, 2018

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Abstract / Extract / Inject

Legacy code is a part of life for any software developer. There are many definitions of Legacy code. Some consider it to be code that…

Aug 17, 2018

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Aug 17, 2018

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Kotlin’s ‘Nothing’ Type

A colleague approached me a while ago and asked me a question about Kotlin. What was this “Nothing” type, and what was it used for? I did…

Dec 9, 2017

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Dec 9, 2017

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Test By Layer

In the world of Java and Android, Mockito is an industry standard. Many a unit test are written where the very first thing a developer does…

Sep 26, 2017

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Sep 26, 2017

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Testing Kotlin Scripts

Recently, I’ve taken it upon myself to do a bit of automation scripting for some of the more tedious day to day tasks I am faced with at…

Aug 15, 2017

Aug 15, 2017

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Android ViewModels means Composition

With Google’s new ViewModel library comes a new slew of tutorials, documentation, blog posts, and github repositories describing it’s uses…

Jul 5, 2017

Jul 5, 2017

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Functional MVVM on Android

This post serves as a rewrite for a previous post of the same title. The original post was a little too full of theory, so I made the…

Apr 19, 2017

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Monoids: It’s just Reduce!

Oversimplifications happen to be something I’m good at, so I’ll apologize in advance if this is another one. A lot of the time when people…

Jan 17, 2017

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Reactive MVP in Android

I’ve looked at a lot of different implementations of the MVP pattern within Android applications over the last year. Some I agree with, and…

Jan 4, 2017

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Exploring an Either Monad in Kotlin

Recently, I was enlightened. I finally, fully grasped how the Either Monad works. At least I think I do. In this post, I am looking to…

Nov 21, 2016

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Redundant tests and Square’s Burst

A lot of times we find ourselves writing 4 or more tests for the same function, just in order to vary it’s inputs. We copy and paste, and…

Nov 14, 2016

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When Architecture is a Burden

A lot of people will say that software developers go through different stages throughout their career. One such stage could be coined the…

Nov 2, 2016

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Saved Instance State

One of the pain points when you’re getting into Android development is how to deal with state. I’m not talking about how you deal with…

Oct 6, 2015

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Creating a simple Git Commit Parser in Haskell

While browsing Reddit this morning, I came across a neat project involving the parsing of Git Commits for proper grammar and syntax. This…

Sep 10, 2015