Category Archives: java

Jersey + Jetty = less hair

Posted on February 10, 2014 by kingargyle

This is mainly for future me when I run into this problem again. I needed to use Jersey 2.x and had setup an embedded Jetty server for some integration testing. One portion needed to get the parameters from a POST … Continue reading →

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YouTube GData API and Android

Posted on December 30, 2013 by kingargyle

If you want to use the YouTube API v2 to search for content on YouTube with an Android device, the recommended way is the use the gdata-http-client java package. However, this requires that you parse the XML returned yourself, and … Continue reading →

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EclipseCon 2011: Monday Talk Highlight

Posted on March 22, 2011 by kingargyle

Instead of giving a complete summary of Monday, I’ll try and highlight the one talk that I felt provided the most buzz that I attended.   Of those that I didn’t attend, but was getting good buzz on twitter was … Continue reading →

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Clean Code irk

Posted on March 8, 2011 by kingargyle

Say you have something like the following in your code: The above is pretty basic and is probably used even in your own code. While the above works, a more meaningful API could be something like the following. Yes the … Continue reading →

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>To JavaDoc or Not JavaDoc..Part Deux

Posted on May 11, 2008 by kingargyle

>Automating Java API Reference Plugins. One of the things that Eclipse PDE is missing is a nice way to generate SDK javadoc help plugins. The nice thing about living in the Internet age, is that somebody else has probably already … Continue reading →

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