How to send app crash reports in Android
As a developer you often need to know the details of an app crash, specially if it happens on a customer’s device or any remote […]
Create A Navigation Drawer in Android
OVERVIEW Most modern apps have a sliding Navigation Drawer as the main navigation element. This seems to be the modern version replacement of the sliding […]
Minify CSS with C#
The code below compresses and minifies CSS files. Minification is not the same as obfuscation. Minification removes all whitespace , comments and needless characters so […]
Create A Generic Yes-No Dialog in Android
Often in apps, we need to popup a dialog that will show a message and take a Yes or No in response from the user. […]
How To Show A Progress Dialog in Android
OVERVIEW When you need to do some long running task and show a “wait” dialog to the user while the task is running, a Progress […]
Swift – Moving UITextField up when keyboard is shown
Unlike in Android, where the device keyboard automatically handles display management when it pops up, iOS does not have this capability. So as a programmer, […]
The Stupid Concept Of “Soft Skills”
Let me tell you what I find “stupid” about the phrase “soft skills”. Anyway, it’s most likely that the word “stupid” caught your attention and […]
Setup ProFTP in FreeBSD
Instructions for setting up an internal FTP server on a FreeBSD 10 machine. Note that this machine is not setup for public access and hence […]
Registering DLL files in Windows 64 bit
If the DLL is 32 bit: Copy the DLL to C:\Windows\SysWoW64\ In an elevated command prompt: %windir%\SysWoW64\regsvr32.exe %windir%\SysWoW64\namedll.dll if the DLL is 64 bit: Copy […]
Capture and parse JSON data in Swift
The sample code below shows how to get JSON encoded data via HTTP and then parse it for use within the application. For HTTP interaction, […]