Android HackerNews - Trying to get to a Story

I'm not sure where this post is going to go. I'm checking my pre-planned posts and ... there's none for the Android HackerNews Reader. This is kinda sad as I was enjoying being able to just sit down and start up on the project. Now…

HackerNews UWP : Getting Some Data

When we last left our brave little app... And if it's trying to be on the windows platform; you know it's indeed brave - It had just configured it's network layer and is looking to expose it to the wider world! I spent a…

Book Review - Elegant Objects Vol 2

Much like Volume 1; Elegant Objects Vol 2 [https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Objects-2-Yegor-Bugayenko/dp/1534908307/]is fantastic. It didn't impact my mental model of how to develop software as much as Vol 1. This Vol is more about the things that are destructive to the desired programming paradigm…

HackerNews Android - Formatter

A comment on my Early Thoughts: Object Oriented Encapsulation [https://blog.quantityandconversion.com/2017/04/09/object-oriented-encapsulation/] post brought up an excellent view about how to decouple a class from it's display mechanism. I'm on board with this idea. It helps keep the objects to their…

Book Review - Elegant Objects Vol 1

A colleague brought up Elegant Objects (Vol 1) [https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Objects-1-Yegor-Bugayenko/dp/1519166915/] by Yegor Bugayenko; suggesting someone read it and see if it's worth while for those looking trying to follow best Object Oriented Programming/Design practices. I can read through books pretty quickly; I…

Android HackerNews - Interactive Item

We're at the point we need to do something with the Story we're displaying. Or the job. Either one. My thoughts on this is to have two actions. A tap and a swipe. The swipe is going to require a change in the list itself (I…

My Thoughts: Unit Tests

In an earlier post; Design & Development Principles - XP - Keyboard Circle [https://blog.quantityandconversion.com/2017/04/02/design-development-principles-xp-keyboard-circle/] ; which would be a couple months ago by the time time this goes live; I talk about doing TDD and the benefit it provides. There I mention that it&…

RabbitMq - First Hops

Get it, "Hops", 'cause "Rabbit". They "hop". HAH! ... I've started writing some code to explore an idea I've had bubbling around for... I think close to two years now. It's undergone a number of iterations, and discussions…