Microservice architecture discussion

Microservice architecture is a quite new concept which currently I am fond of. I am gaining more and more experience and practical knowledge about its strengts and weaknesses as well. Until the system is deployed, still new conclusions appear. And new articles appear on the web. I would like to share an article that is a …

Clean Code: Dont use if’s! Use polymorphism instead

Writing clean code is crucial, so the software developer constantly needs to improve his skills and code understanding. My way to do it, is to explore others' best practices. Here is one of them to consider: I am not fully convinced that all the if's shall be refactored and removed, however the example given is …

Android custom button layout tutorial

The goal of this tutorial is to create customized button with your own background. The result will be something like that: There are two ways of creating such background. The common one is to define it in XML file - this way I will describe here. The other, more elastic way is to define it …

Custom Eclipse shortcuts: Import / Export

As working with eclipse is far easier while using shortcuts, here is the way to define your own custom keys and export them. This enables using them in every eclipse instance you use.   Define custom shortcut 1. Under Window -> Preference -> General -> Keys is window to set up shortcuts. 2. Find desired command and press desired …