I've been looking for a simple and inexpensive way to host my Kotlin library binaries for some time. Previously I have used JitPack, but there's no Kotlin multi-platform support. I have tried Bintray in the past but found it to be over-complicated. So, I was left with no good solution for hosting my libraries. Then […]
C. Scott Brown joins Joe and Adam to talk about what he’s excited about for CES next week. Looking back on a decade of Android we revisit some of the most iconic Android phones from the 2010s. Plus we look ahead to some things we’d like to see out of phone makers in 2020. Finally, […]
This is the ultimate checklist for tennis success in 2020! Listen as Ian counts down his top ten tools, mindsets, processes, and approaches to learning that have made the biggest difference in his students over the past twelve months. Use any 5 of them in the New Year that you’ll see a huge difference in […]
I started this decade as a first-year college student fresh out of high school. I was 17, didn’t have a job, didn’t have any industry connections, and really didn’t know shit. And now you’re reading my blog! I would have been proud. I’ve told bits and pieces of my story on different podcasts. Now feels […]
Book Review Author : A. J. Finn Genre : Psychological Thriller Publisher : Harper Collins Published : January 2018 Number of Pages : 390 My Rating : 5 out of 5 The Woman in the Window is a psychological thriller by A. J. Finn. The main character, Dr. Anna Fox, suffers from severe agoraphobia and […]
The Kotless Serverless Framework provides desired functionality for the Kotlin ecosystem. A couple months ago I wrote an article about an idea for Kotlin “Server-less” Functions. Unbeknownst to me, JetBrains was working on a similar project called Kotless. While not precisely what I had envisioned, this project does seem promising. For more information about Kotless, […]
Author: Perry Romanowski Published: December 30, 2019 Happy New Year! We take a look at some of the hottest trends in the beauty industry in 2019 including clean beauty, CBD, Indie beauty and waterless beauty. Then we give our predictions for the hottest trends coming in 2020. We’ll get back to answering beauty questions in […]
In the first part of this series, I discussed some of the core concepts surrounding embedded Linux, with the ultimate goal of empowering you to be able to build inexpensive embedded Linux systems. This part will look at some of the many, many devices you can use to develop with. I’ll also discuss some of […]
Kotlin, by design, doesn’t allow a non-null variable to be left uninitialised during its declaration. To get past this issue, Kotlin’s lateinit allows us to declare a variable first and then initialise it some point in the future during our program’s execution cycle. The concept is simple, but when we try to access an uninitialised property, it’s […]