Ok, you’re curious and want to try building your first Android app. How hard can it be? This article will show you what you need to do to get your first Android App up and running. (Running, that is, on … Continue reading
How to Fix Google Gmail Slow and Missing Keystroke Problem
This one will drive you batty. You are trying to use Google Gmail and the keyboard input slows waaaaay down. No matter how slow you go, there are still characters that you have to repeatedly press over and over again … Continue reading
How to Permanently Turn Off Annoying Adobe “Update to Flash Player” and “Update is Ready to Install” Notifications
Yeah, Adobe, I got your “An update to Adobe Flash Player is available” and “Update is Ready to Install” hangin’ right here! Oooh, I’m really going to trust your advice to turn off notifications in your Adobe daemon software-from-hell honeypot. … Continue reading
What the Heck is Polymorphism?
If you’re learning how to create graphics, you’ve probably seen how the typical Java textbook presents the following “mystery meat” program: class myGraphicsProgram extends JPanel { public void paintComponent(Graphics g) { //where did the following come from? Graphics2D g2d = … Continue reading
Calculus Gone Wild
Many students are going into advanced health services (pharmacy, medical school, physician’s assistant, physical therapy, etc.) To get into these programs at some of the more competitive schools, you need to take chemistry, biology, biochem, physics and… gulp… calculus. In … Continue reading
Java Gotchas
Remember these Java “gotchas” — They’ll help keep you from stepping on your meat as you learn Java. They get tougher as they go along. Java Programs A Java application is another word for a Java program. A source code … Continue reading
From Craplets to Applets and Back Again: How Java Apps Lost Their Mojo
This article was originally entitled, From Craplet to Applet: How Java Got Its Mojo Back Again, before I discovered some of the same deal-breaking issues lurking in Java technology. I wrote the original article because after being away from the … Continue reading