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When rebuilding the search functionality of a product that I am working on I managed to quite effortlessly completely break the mobile applications client integrations with the API. The main issue was that I was entering some unchartered territory, and trying to do some pretty complex things. I was in

Regular expressions are one of those things that I never really took the time to learn. Rather, whenever a situation arose I would discern and 'learn' the specific thing that I needed to resolve my problem. Having built Whois Browser as well as many other internal tools which

References are handled differently across different programming languages. Given that I work with a number of different languages it is important that I have a clear understanding of how they work. References in Java have caused me a few issues - issues that are mainly a result of their utilisation

In the process of building an Android application I encountered a number of small and foolish issues which I thought that I would outline such that you don't make the same mistakes. I probably shouldn't be admitting to making these kinds of mistakes, but.. well.. I

As you may be aware, the front end of the PubReviews.com website is built using ReactJS. I wrote about it here. For SEO purposes we utilise server side rendering of Javascript components (woo ! Isomorphic Javascript) such that on page load the user (or search engine) gets an instantaneous, near

The problem with working with user locations on the Android platform is complexity. Android's location APIs are extremely complicated, and ever changing. I was recently alerted to an issue with some of the location functionality within the Pub Reviews Android App. Having had a quick look in the

The content of this post relates to version 1.12 of Twitter's Android APIs (which were the latest versions at the time of publishing) One of the most annoying things that I have encountered as an engineer is those situations whereby you encounter an issue which you are

Yesterday I encountered a problem when building the latest version of an Android app on which I am working. That problem was that when uploading a new photo to the site, subject to the user pressing 'Continue' before the upload is complete, I wanted to show the new

iOS push notifications are (in my personal opinion) suprisingly difficult to implement properly and debug. This is especially suprising given that Apple have provided such in depth documentation, and given that there are such an abundance of tutorials on the topic. The problem is that no single resource has a