Drupal programming tutorials and examples
I'm happy to announce that I'm just about to reach fifty Drupal tips, tutorials, and examples over on my devdaily.com website. Actually, if you do a search for "Drupal" on the devdaily website it shows...
View ArticleWant to learn Scala? Free?
If you work in Boulder, Louisville, Westminster, or Golden, Colorado, and your organization wants to learn Scala, send me an email. My name is Alvin Alexander, and I wrote the Scala Cookbook for...
View ArticleFree copy of the Scala Cookbook
Want a free copy of the Scala Cookbook? Sign up for OReilly’s Blogger Review Program: http://oreilly.com/bloggers
View ArticleSencha Touch now supports iOS7
I've been using Sencha Touch lately to develop a mobile application, and in very good news, Sencha Touch now supports the iOS 7 look and feel with an iOS 7 theme named Cupertino. You can find more...
View ArticleSencha Touch and HTML5 - as fast as native apps?
I ran across this story about Sencha Touch speed and an app named Fastbook. In short, the video at that link shows how a Sencha Touch mobile app is faster than Facebook’s native iOS and Android...
View ArticleScala Cookbook 'Bonus chapters'
When I wrote the Scala Cookbook, I didn’t know that the page count of the book would dramatically grow when the book was converted from MS Word files to PDF files. My editor told me that it was roughly...
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Agile software development and user stories
When I write software for myself, I usually think of my software application from the perspective of a business analyst, and write down short user stories, as shown in the image of the index card....
View ArticlePlay Framework CRUD generator
I don’t like to write basic CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) code, and furthermore I don’t like to charge clients for writing such basic code. As a result, I wrote a tool I named the Cato CRUD...
View ArticleBest Scala book for Java developers and beginners
As a quick note today (July 26, 2014), I’m glad to see that many Java developers and beginning Scala developers have said that the Scala Cookbook is the best Scala book available. I wrote the Cookbook...
View ArticleBoulder, Colorado Ironman competition
Just a quick note today that Boulder, Colorado will be home to a triathlete “Ironman” competition this Sunday, August 3, 2014. Participants will swim 2.4 miles in the Boulder Reservoir, ride their...
View ArticleA JNativeHook example in Scala
I’ve been working on a few applications where I want to get access to native, global keystrokes and mouse movements, so I’ve been using the JNativeHook library, which seems to work well on Mac OS X...
View ArticleLittleLogger - A very simple Java/Scala logging utility
A lot of times when I’m writing small test applications I want/need a logger, but I don’t want to deal with the complexities of traditional Java/Scala logging utilities. This morning I finally took a...
View ArticleMy Android cheat sheet
This document is my Android cheat sheet. It's something of a summary of what I know about Android as of today (late February, 2015). I don't offer much discussion here; this is mostly just a quick...
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Just Be, a mindfulness reminder application
I’m proud to announce that I’ve developed an Android “mindfulness reminder” app named Just Be. While this new app is simple in many ways, it does what I want: It sends me periodic reminders that help...
View ArticleHow to calculate the sum of a List in Java and Scala
As a quick note about a difference between Java and Scala, I recently wrote this blog post about How to Sum the Elements of a List in Java (ArrayList, LinkedList, etc.). For several years I have known...
View ArticleMy Android apps on the Google Play Store
As a quick note, I recently released my second Android app on the Google Play Store. My first app is named “Just Be,” and it’s a “mindfulness reminders” app. You can learn about it at these links:The...
View ArticleMy consulting book is now online, free
As a short note today, I have made my book, “A Survival Guide for New Consultants,” available online. Here’s a link to it:A Survival Guide for New Consultants (online, free book)If you’re interested in...
View ArticleHow to migrate Drupal 6 websites to Drupal 8
If you need to upgrade/migrate a Drupal 6 website to Drupal 8, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news is that many of the basic features of your Drupal 6 website will migrate properly to...
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Best Christmas/holiday book gift ideas for programmers
I was told recently that my book, Functional Programming, Simplified, would be a great Christmas/holiday book gift idea. So if you happen to be looking for gift books for programmers this season,...
View ArticleValley Programming software consulting services, 2019
If you have read my blog posts on alvinalexander.com or my tweets on Twitter, you know that I have a rare, non-contagious blood disease and it took 26 doctors over a period of seven years to properly...
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