Feb
17
Symbian weather app - a quick update
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I’ve been on a very boring meeting sometime last week. I used that time to improve my weather app
I’ve added a very simple function. In addition to showing current conditions, now you’ve got two more tabs with forecast for today and tomorrow.
Enjoy.
Jan
27
My very first Python S60 app
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This weekend I found some time to create my first application for my new phone. A tiny little app, in fact.
I used Python to create a small weather application. When started, it asks for the city. Then, it fetches weather condition and forecast from Google. Then it displays current conditions. That’s it.
I spent most of […]
Dec
19
My recent post inpired a friend of mine to write about the untestability of the code. Go check the entry before reading further, because it a response.
Though I do agree with his general point - code that is hard to test probably is a bad code and should be refactored - I don’t agree with […]
Dec
18
A small introduction:
I’ve been writing a small piece of code recently. Since I’m test-infected, I cannot sleep well unless I’ve got test cases for everything I write. And I do use mock objects a lot - I test all my methods both in isolation.
Sometimes writing a piece of functionality as a static method is the […]
Nov
15
Although I should be doing something else, Boo, IronPython and .NET kept occupying my mind. So I made a small coding experiment.
First, I downloaded IKVM. Then - SWT. I compiled SWT jar to a dll. No problems here.
Then I wrote a SWT hello world in IronPython. To be honest - I took a Java […]
Nov
13
Boo
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Although I’ve heard of Boo before, it never came on my radar. However, recently the boojay emerged and I found myself curious enough to take a closer look.
And you know what? It’s pretty neat!
There are number of features which almost instantly had me sold:
Python-like syntax. I’m a big Python fan. I value its syntax […]
Aug
18
You stand under the shower, hot water runs down your spine, and then BOOM, you’ve got The Idea. Or you drive back from work, angry on all those idiots on the road and again - a moment of enlightenment, The Idea just jumps into your head.
Do you have those moments? I do, I do more […]
Mar
15
Word Chains
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I’ve been evaluating a piece of software at work recently. Do get it up and running I needed to install Windows, database engine and the application which is itself quite heavy and takes ages to install.
Instead of staring at the installation progress bar all day long, I take a look at Dave Thomas’ Code Kata. […]