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Hybrid Development At the moment, I'm a "mobile hybrid development" believer. HTML5 provides a lot a good stuff ready to use for mobile apps and to solve native access dilemma, i've choose to use the  Cordova (aka Phonegap ) framework. Cordova Cordova provides a container, built around a native WebView, that allow to embed an HTML5 app in native fashion. A great feature of Cordova is their " plugin's infrastructure " that enable communication between Javascript and native code giving to developers infinite possibility to break HTML5 limits and/or restrictions. Working with Cordova and developing plugins for IOS & Android  i've understood that common need for all plugins is just to send messages from Javascript that can be handle in native code and viceversa. So i've developed a generic plugin that extend the Cordova built-in message bus  connecting it to the standard native message bus  provided by native platform. The ...

As java developer I continuously searching tools that make easier my daily work. While ago i've started to use JBoss Forge and, for my job, seems the right tool in the right moment. The tight maven integration, the lot of available wizards has immediately got my attention, but the "best of" for me was the possibility to extend it developing Addon in easy way and sharing them as maven artifacts. Lately i'm approaching to other programming languages (i'm became a polyglot believer) and in particular i love Javascript, because it could be considered a full-stack language covering either the client-side and server-side programming.  So i've thought to bring on javascript on JBoss Forge to allow developing an Addon using such programming language more than java, giving the possibility to developers to build, test & share an Addon in quick & easy way without need to compilation and jar packaging For that purpose I've sta...

What's a Code Playground ? In the last Apple Developer Conference (ADC) has been presented the new programming language named Swift . In that conference the Swift's showcases have been developed through a new tool, included in Xcode, named Playground ( Playing Around ) that allowed, while writing code, having an immediate feedback about the effect of what they were doing It is quite evident that this is a great feature to provide for whatever IDE and take note that  Apple is not the first to do this. Purpose of this article is to try to give as much as possible information about the best "Code Playground" available in the software development market Java Code Playgrounds So let's start. First, being a Java Developer, i would like put in evidence that a kind of "playground" has been provided by Eclipse long time ago through use of Java Scrapbook Page that are defined as: The scrapbook allows Java expressions, to be run, inspected, a...

why a release so time shortly ? After release 1.3.0 of  Cordova-POC    I have had some feedbacks about crash of application in various scenarios such as : At startup  Opening the showcase  Opening the JSFiddle tab On my devices, 4S+7.1.1/IPAD2+7.1.1, everything went well but the problem seemed happen only on 5s devices. After an investigation I have found the problem that was related to   Apache Cordova  implementation. Fortunately there was available also a  FIX  (Cordova 3.5.0 includes it by default).  I've applied such fix, tested and submitted the new 1.3.1 release of  Cordova-POC  to App Store.  Hope this release will solve all previous problems, while for the next release, the 1.4.0,  i've planned to add push support and a new view to show up the device log (for debug purpose) Thanks for patience and enjoy this new release of  Cordova-POC

Introduction J Boss Forge is an enhanced java shell, tightly coupled with maven, that allows to develop scaffolding, wizards and whatever utilities that you can imagine.  It is defined as:   The fastest way to build applications, share your software and enjoy doing it. From release 2.0 , JBoss Forge has implemented an UI abstraction layer that allow to  run its shells both as command line interface (CLI) than as eclipse's plugin with GUI .  This is a very nice feature that has pushed me to develop a JBoss Forge addon for my confluence maven plugin , to make easier setup confluence publication within your maven project Let's give a look at how to setup the confluence maven plugin in your project from eclipse using JBoss Forge First, Install Forge2 in Eclipse To do this an Update Site is available for Eclipse Kepler or Luna (4.3/4.4) at  http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/builds/staging/jbosstools-forge_master/all/repo/ Install...

Developer & Github For those like me who develop using Github and continuously evaluates new projects to fork them or to reuse in own development work every tool that could help us about that is welcomed During dayly blogs' screening,  my attention has been captured by a new Chrome Extension named Octotree  that display Github code in tree format . I've immediately installed it because often i deal with a lot of clicks to open source code and ... et voilà problem solved. Description  Display GitHub code in tree format. Useful for developers who frequently read source in GitHub and do not want to download or checkout too many repositories. Features  Easy-to-navigate code tree like IDEs Fast browsing with pjax Support private repositories  Conclusion Now i'm an  Octotree   happy user and i hope that this extension helps you as much as helped me

To Be Reactive Lately I attended the Codemotion  event in Rome where i heard very interesting talks and many of them were related at the " Reactive Programming " that is the way to develop application that follow the rules stated in the " Reactive Manifesto ".  Below such talks: Jonas Bonér has   dived us  in " Building Reactive apps with Akka and Java 8"   Massimiliano Dessì  on " Vert.X polyglot and reactive on JVM"" Matteo Collina on " MQTT and Node.js - Messaging the Internet of Things " From a while seems that the talks,questions and thoughts upon Reactive Programming (joined with Functional Programming) are dominating the development scene. Yet another OOP ? I have been programming long enough to remember when OOP was new. It’s funny how similar the arguments against OOP and Reactive Programming are. Object oriented concepts where used long before anyone gave a name to it. Now OOP is taken for gran...

Introduction As explained in   COCOAPODS: a dependency manager for IOS development  , Cocoapods has became the de-facto standard for IOS development. As consequence of that, from Open Source's world are coming out several Xcode plugins to make easy to work with Cocoapods In this article i briefly describe the plugins that i've tested during my IOS development work CocoaPodUI  This Plugin provides a UI that allows to search, select & install pods in graphical way. In particular is  very handy the searching feature and it is well-designed the provided way to  keeping pod's versions under control. CocoaPodUI popup Installation Open and build CocoaPodUI project, it will be installed automatically. Uninstall Just remove CocoaPodUI.xcplugin from ~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins Source : https://github.com/Galeas/CocoaPodUI CocoaPods for Xcode  This plugin provides  a complete set of...

Goal One of my goals in last job was: Allow third party systems and user access, in easy way, to JMX MBeans [1] provided by our Enterprise application The common solution was to use "JMX Remoting" ( JSR160 )  and than, i had to choose: A "JMX remoting" protocol A "JMX viewer" compliant with such protocol Choosing a JXM Remoting protocol I found several supported protocols such as  rmi , iiop , jmxmp , soap   provided by the  MX4 J  project which last release has been in 2006.  Lately, JBoss community, has released a remoting-jmx , a project to provide the integration required to expose JMX over Remoting 3 connections. Chooosing a JMX Viewer Concerning JMX Viewer the most popular are JConsole  and VisualVM   both are monitoring tool provided by JDK, while if we need web-based solution, we have to catch from open source marketplace (see http://java-source.net/open-source/jmx )  After investigation After this i...