For the last two weeks, I have been busy studying the Protractor automation tool. During the process, several questions came to mind and as I researched and studied to uncover the mysteries of this framework, I decided to put the results together as a Q&A. This blog is the result! Consider this...

In this collection of articles about Android, I will guide you through the basic topics that you'll need to get started in this mobile world - even if you're completely new to the Android operating system. 

A hands-on look at enabling rich previews of links in iMessage, Facebook, and beyond. First published on January 9th, 2017 at markcarlson.io

The iMessage app in iOS 10 provides rich previews of links when they are properly formatted to take advantage of this new feature. In addition, these same...

Let's say you've been working on your project for awhile, but can't shake the feeling that it is performing sluggishly. More importantly, your client is also unhappy with the code's responsiveness. Remember, your code doesn't need to be fully optimized. 80% of the gains generally come from focusing...

Android applications are, almost universally, data driven. All screens have a data object that can be fetched from the internet, database, or even created by the application user. Typically on Android apps, developers need to inflate the view, locate each view element using findById, and then set...

In the first part of our Tutorial, we learned how to setup and run our Vapor environment, as well as how to configure MySQL for use. If you missed Part 1, you can read it here! Now, in Part 2, we will create our data Model and learn how to develop the necessary basic data operations that will be...

“Do not reinvent the wheel.” That’s the principle Mule applies when it comes to Mule Message Security. Anypoint Enterprise Security is a suite that comes bundled with all the necessary modules/methods for applying security to Mule Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations and Web...