Handling Orientation Changes on Android

Introduction

Handling orientation changes on Android is one of the most frustrating things to deal with as an Android engineer. I hope to make that challenge just a little bit easier and to help you better understand exactly…

Building Docker Images inside Kubernetes

The Problem

Mobile Photo Uploads with HTML5

Asynchronous file uploading on the web and especially the mobile web used to be a struggle. Three reasons come to mind:

• AJAX’s inability to send file data meant Flash and hidden frames became the go-to solutions

A Scalable, Reliable Webhook Dispatcher Powered by Kafka

A Comprehensive Guide to Validating and Formatting Credit Cards

Credit card forms are one of those elements that every online business will have to implement at one point or another, and they can often be a pain point for both developers and users. That being said, it’s crucial that…

Custom Notifications for Android

Why custom notifications?

Arriving at Hootsuite, my first project was to revamp our Android push notifications — from single lines of text to ones that contained the same information as our in-app notifications. This would allow…

Unit Testing Complex Java Objects with Mockito

I’m sure this scenario has happened to you: Out of the corner of your eye you notice your team’s QA engineer approaching with a confused look on her face. Suddenly, your heart starts to beat faster…