Month: October 2015

I attended the first Swift Summit on 21st of March; there were two days but I only went to the first. Here are some of the facts I learned: Int is not a fundamental type as you would think of it in most languages.  Instead it’s a struct that der…

I attended the first Swift Summit on 21st of March; there were two days but I only went to the first. Here are some of the facts I learned: Int is not a fundamental type as you would think of it in most languages.  Instead it’s a struct that der…

You can use the GitHub API to find out how many times the files in your releases have been downloaded. For example, to find out how many downloads there have been of my Rabbit Escape project you can do: curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/andybalaam/r…

At the Software Architect 2015 conference in London I presented “What if? Supporting decisions with software dynamics simulations”. [1] This talk introduces the idea of performing numerical simulations of software development teams and the products they build. The value in such simulations is to inform policy decisions and guide deliberate …

At the Software Architect 2015 conference in London I presented “What if? Supporting decisions with software dynamics simulations”. [1] This talk introduces the idea of performing numerical simulations of software development teams and the products they build. The value in such simulations is to inform policy decisions and guide deliberate …

If you want to display a link or basic formatting in an AlertDialog on Android, you can do it by providing HTML. The key parts you need are Html.fromHtml and TextView.setMovementMethod. Make sure you pass the dialog’s context in to the constructor of t…