...d to see CharSequence used to define arguments and return types. Details Nowadays we know that generally an API/framework should focus on exporting interfaces primarily and concrete classes secondarily. But we did not always know this lesson so well. The String class came first in Java. Only late...

... Now it can also be used in lower versions ie below 3.0(honeycomb) by using the v7 compat support library.. – AndroidMech Jun 6 '14 at 13:27 ...

... in computer vision, keypoint matching. This may require some background knowledge to implement, and can be slow. The second method uses only elementary image processing, and is potentially faster than the first approach, and is straightforward to implement. However, what it gains in understandabi...

I know how I use these terms, but I'm wondering if there are accepted definitions for faking , mocking , and stubbing for unit tests? How do you define these for your tests? Describe situations where you might use each. ...

... presentation layer and your backend? Do we really aim having programmers knowing just one language? – gawi Jun 22 '11 at 16:25 ...

... Ran into the known ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException, and after some analysis, I believe it is caused by an incorrect optimization by the Dalvik VM. In the for loop immediately before the bad dereference, either the calculation of the rbs var...

...amples: Redis, Cassandra, MemcacheDB Strengths: Fast lookup of values by known keys They are very simplistic, but that makes them fast and easy to use. When you have no need for stored procedures, constraints, triggers and all those advanced database features and you just want fast storage and ret...

... ... } } Study case 2 We will modify the original Car class. Now,Car declare 5 fields and 3 constructors that have no relation between them. 1.Using constructor to value fields with default values is undesirable public class Car { private String name; private String origin; ...

... "zombie thread" crashing a system. I routinely use locking and I didn't know what a "zombie thread" was, so I asked. The impression I got from his explanation is that a zombie thread is a thread that has terminated but somehow still holds onto some resources. An example he gave of how a zombie t...

...= [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar]; // now build a NSDate object for the next day NSDateComponents *offsetComponents = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init]; [offsetComponents setDay:1]; NSDate *nextDate = [gregorian dateByAddingComponents:offsetComponents toDate: [N...