Yes college football fans, it’s that time of year again: Key & Peele have released their list of names for the East-West Bowl 3, Pro Edition. Once again this year I jotted down the list of names from the Key/Peele video, and included them below.
But first, the video for their third college bowl game:
I needed to center some tabs in a scrolling tab view layout in an Android application, and this technique worked for me. Note that the wrap_content part is needed for the width setting. Image is from this SO link.
Whenever you need to understand the difference between the Java JTextArea, JTextPane, and JEditorPane, check out this Sun/Oracle link.
The meaning/origin of the phrase, “Cut to the chase.” Image from this link.
On this day 29 years ago. Photo from this Twitter link.
Apple had an amazing quarter in terms of iPhones sold, revenue, and profit. The infographic comes from this Forbes article.
How The Guardian does continuous delivery, and what it took to get there. A few notes: 1) Developers are doing operations and support as products shift to full stack ownership. 2) QA have shifted from manual regression testing to automated tests and exploratory testing. 3) Operations have shifted from running products and being production gatekeepers to being consultants and watchmen (auditing product implementations). 4) Release management is no longer a dedicated role, with each product team able to release when they like and RiffRaff providing centralised reporting. The story begins at this Twitter link.
RoboVM is a software tool written to let you run Java applications on the iOS platform. From the docs, “RoboVM translates Java bytecode into native ARM or x86 code. Apps run fast directly on the CPU. No interpreter involved. RoboVM includes a Java to Objective-C bridge that makes it possible to call into the native iOS CocoaTouch APIs.”
I found that I can control the scrolling speed of an Android ListView using code like this in a Fragment:
Here are two notes (separated by the horizontal line) on what you can do to try to control an Android application’s heap size, from this SO link. As you can see, you can’t set the heap size directly, like you can with the java command. Here’s a link to the android.com 'large heap' setting documentation page.
Former Chicago Cubs catcher John Baker talks about pitching prospects Hendricks, Beeler, and Jokisch.
