It didn’t take long for me to fall in love with Gradle. Once I was introduced to it, I never looked back. It was the same with Ant as I transitioned from Make. But, Gradle is different. I always felt building was necessary evil. It was often done way after first code was ever written. This isn’t true with Gradle. Before any code is written, I start every project by setting up my Gradle build. I actually look forward to adding more features to my build. How crazy is that?! WSDL to JavaRecently, I published one of my old SharePoint…
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Chances are you have seen Fluent Interface in action. I’ve seen it without realizing what they were until I stumbled across Martin Fowler’s blog. The aim is simple – to provide for a more readable code. SharePoint APISeveral years ago, I wrote a SharePoint API in Java to interact with its List Soap Service. This soap service had a feature to query the target list using Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML). Here’s an example of CAML query to filter the task list where the TaskName is “Foo Bar” and the Status is “In Progress”. As part of this SharePoint API,…
I’ve been meaning to contribute to open source for some time. I really didn’t have anything particularly in mind to what I wanted to publish. However, I’ve been dealing with varying degree of integration complexity to some of my application environments at the office. Inevitably, someone would scratch their head for several minutes trying to figure out why something failed only to realize that it was due to an external dependency. Needless to say, a simple tool that would provide a holistic view of the system could have saved them some pain. This could then be expanded to other environments: shared…
Ask me a month ago regarding my choice of scripting language, my answer would have been Perl or, if it’s a trivial use case, Bash. That’s no longer the case. Now, I am eager to flex my Groovy knowledge. Why Groovy? Consider the use case of executing a system command and redirecting the output to be processed by your program. With Perl, this is a trivial task: just use a backquote to perform your system command. Perl will assign the result of your standard out to the left-hand variable. In Groovy, it’s just as easy. Now, imagine having to perform…
Having a list of article isn’t enough, we need to allow users to click through to the actual article. It’s also not a good user experience to have each article open in safari. We want to provide the ability to view the article within our app. Apple UIKit makes this extremely easy by providing a Web View component to view the target website. 1. Add New View Controller We want to first add a new View Controller that will hold the Web View. This can be done by dragging View Controller from object browser over to the storyboard. Once added,…