Posts

Dec 1, 2014 Index large text files using Java
A couple of weeks ago I found myself in a situation where I needed to index the content of a text file whose size was quite big, more than the available RAM in the PC. Basically, the idea was to replicate the behaviour of a database index by going through the file and looking for specific lines that we wanted to index and than saving the line along with the position in the file. We can later use the position to move quickly inside the file to retrieve the desired information.
Sep 25, 2014 Hack the Tower event in London
In this post I’d like to talk about something less technical, or at least something that doesn’t include code snippets.
Aug 9, 2014 Lambda Behave testing framework
Today I attended a small hack day organized with the purpose of trying out and play a little bit with a new Java testing testing framework. The framework is called Lambda Behave, and it is developed and maintained by Richard Warburton, author of the book Java 8 Lambdas. More details and the public source code are available at this link: http://richardwarburton.github.io/lambda-behave/
Jun 7, 2014 Implementation of HashSet in Java
In this post I’ll be talking about how the class HashSet is implemented in Java. We’ll be having a look at the source code included with the OpenJDK project.
May 17, 2014 Learning new programming languages using exercism
In this post I want to talk about a project that I found really useful if you want to learn a new programming language. The project I’m talking about is exercism.io.
May 9, 2014 Displaying items details when clicking on an item in a ListView
For the first post of this blog I want to talk about something related to Android. In particular, the other day I was working on an Android application, and I wanted it to behave like this: