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Yesterday Android developer advocate Reto Meier asked about what developers loved/hated about application frameworks . It got me thinking ab...

Today I was working on some code that needed to invoke a JavaScript function on a web page that was being displayed in a WebView within an A...

This morning, my co-worker Jason Swartz had the great idea of a conference focussing on JVM languages . This seemed like a particularly go...

There are a lot of people working on mobile applications these days. Some of them are experienced mobile developers. Maybe they were doing J...

Last week I had a fun conversation with Charles Nutter . It was about "java.next" and in particular, Charlie's requirements...

Today I was at The Strange Loop conference. The first talk I attended was by Dean Wampler on functional programming in Ruby. Dean brought up...

In case you missed the announcement from JetBrains yesterday , the popular IntelliJ IDEA has gone free and open source. Sort of. There is no...

This past week's BASE meeting was all about IDE support for Scala. You can read my notes , posted to the Scala tools mailing list. I was...

In October, I am speaking at the inaugural Strange Loop conference in St. Louis . This is not your run of the mill conference. It is organiz...

I am slowly plugging away on my little side project . One of the fun things about "pimping" an API, is you can tweak the design of...

Recently I was working on an article for developerWorks about using Scala on Android. Stay tuned to developerWorks to see that article. Sinc...

Below are the sldies. Major thanks to Charlie Nutter for great feedback and advice on the Ruby code and tuning JRuby performance. Thanks to ...

RIAs Done Right: Grails, Flex, and EXT GWT View more PDF documents from michael.galpin .

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