One of the latest Job Roles in IT in recent years is DevOps – Development & Operations Specialist that tunes up a Software Build System. It has the task to link the work of coders, managers, clients, users, and System Administrators. The last role is un-humanized and replaced by Cloud Software Services. The Cloud Tools…
Secrets unspoken by Flutter Tutorials creating developers
In this article you will learn few secrets not spoken by tutorials creating developers. These are things that many tutorial creating developers aren’t saying, because they don’t know them or realize them. Many colleagues are often too attached to the tool they are using. It has become their fetish. Other times these things are purposefully…
Flutter State – Widget | Provider | MVVM | BLOC
In this article you will read a comparison of the different state management approaches in the Flutter Framework from my full-stack and beyond point of view. Who gives a F* about these Design Patterns? From a business standpoint, it is only indirectly important. If a developer knows them well enough, he will eliminate the possibility…
How to Generate GUID – Java, PHP, Flutter
In this article you’ll get samples of how to Generate Globally Unique Identifier or GUID in Java, PHP and Flutter. Why Use it? Globally Unique Identifiers have certain benefits over number/integer based auto incrementing keys and ids. They are uniquely and randomly created on multiple devices and servers. This is useful in multi-server architectures and…
Two ways to Center Widget in Jetpack Compose
In This Article I am Demonstrating how to Align a Widget or group of Components – to the Center of the parent View or the Screen. Probably more options exist, but – this is for now. The First Option is with parent Column: Column(modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize(), verticalArrangement = Arrangement.Center, horizontalAlignment = Alignment.CenterHorizontally) { Text(text =…
Failed to Rotate Android Activity in the Emulator
In this video/blog post/ I failed to record and Rotate properly one demonstration showing centered Text or some other mix of Widgets in Jetpack Compose. IMO – it is a good moment to point out the places where the rotation may be disabled. AndroidManifest.xml – flag in the Activity Tag. Set the flag SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT set…
Web Interceptors – Java | Android | Flutter
Web Interceptors are the way to implement aspect oriented programming above the HTTP protocol. They do all kinds of functionality: Track usage – auditing, statistics Logging events of special interest Performance monitoring Set custom headers, data encryption, other type of application and domain specific logic Security: On the Server the goal is to prevent unauthorized…
For whom is Flutter for? Why not Native?
Developers tend to attach themselves to frameworks. They see some magic tricks like the ones The Flutter Framework makes in its cross platform efforts. In the past, there were also several other wizardly-like technologies. An experienced software engineer with more than technical skills sees beyond the bytes, the shiny animations and drawings. Flutter Framework is…
Backend Developer into the Frontend World Madness
Being half-Backend (Full-stack) Developer I cannot stop myself from looking at the Frontend World as some kind of mindless madness. I’ve talked before how concepts are renamed and reimplemented. In this article I’m gonna include few more items. Back-end approach in the Front-End The backend developers often don’t care about the size of the systems…
Creating a Product or Service – Layers beyond Software
In the end of the day a piece of Software is just a tool and several more layers are required for it to be useful. Creating a Product or Service – choosing the technical library could be viewed as the most straightforward part – once you figured everything else out. Educating the market A Product…