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Java SE 8 new features tour: Calculating timespans with the new DateTime API

2016-08-14T22:14:00.000+02:00

Cleaner, readable, and powerful coding with Java SE 8 New DateTime API JSR 310 ..... Java SE 8, JSR 310 In this article of the “Java SE 8 new features tour” series, we will deep dig into explanation, and exploring the code of JSR 310 specification, on how to Calculating timespans with the new DateTime API, Calculating time spans with Instant and Duration, Representing date and time values,

Java SE 8 new features tour: Processing Collections with Streams API

2015-07-25T21:41:00.000+02:00

Cleaner, readable, and powerful coding with Java SE 8 Streams..... In this article of the “Java SE 8 new features tour” series, we will deep dig into explanation, and exploring the code, on how to traversing collections with streams Creating streams from collections and arrays, Aggregating stream values.In the previous article “Traversing, filtering, processing collection, & methods enhancements

My JavaFX 8 essentials book is now available on Packt and Amazon

2015-07-04T00:34:00.000+02:00

JavaFX essentials Book I would like to take this opportunity to announce that my book "JavaFX 8 essentials" has been published yesterday on Packt publishing web site and Amazon.com as well. This is my first post for this year 2015, it really was a very hard task and it took around 8 months of writing with all the other book stages till the publication, especially the changes that has been

Java SE 8 new features tour: Traversing, filtering, processing collection, & methods enhancements with Lambda

2014-11-30T00:41:00.000+02:00

Cleaner, readable, and powerful coding with lambda expressions..... In this article of the “Java SE 8 new features tour” series, we will deep dig into explanation, and exploring the code, on how to traverse the collections using lambda expression and with method references, filtering them with predicate interface, implementing default methods in interfaces, and finally implementing static

NetBeans: 8.0.1 Released with bunch of out-of-the-box tools = productivity++

2014-09-20T15:06:00.002+03:00

In every NetBeans release it provides out-of-the-box tools that leverage the java standards and other tools toward the web standards, alongside great papular market tools that increases developer daily productivity. NetBeans editor analyzes code to work efficiently with great tips and refactoring templates for more clear and cleaner code, provides migration from other JDKs toward Java 8, and it

IDE: 5 most favorite NetBeans features

2014-08-10T11:28:00.000+03:00

Development with pleasure.... NetBeans has many interesting features that make development very easy, with few steps, and makes for a very productive environment, in terms of getting your product to market very quickly. It is very hard to limit my talking to only five features, while this IDE has tons of interesting features. But here I am going to mention my most favorite 5 features I am daily

Java SE 8 new features tour: Functional programming with Lambda Expression.

2014-06-30T11:18:00.001+02:00

Understanding lambda expressions.... This article of the “Java SE 8 new features tour” series will deep dive into understanding Lambda expressions. I will show you a few different uses of Lambda Expressions. They all have in common the implementation of functional interfaces. I will explain how the compiler is inferring information from code, such as specific types of variables and what is really

Java SE 8 new features tour: The Big change, in Java Development world.

2014-06-16T12:33:00.001+03:00

I am proudly one of the adopt-OpenJDK members like others professional team members, but joined from last 8 months, during this period, we went through all the stages of Java SE 8 development, compilations, building, coding, and many discussions … etc., until we bring it to the life. And it is released on March 18th 2014 and it is now available for you. I am happy to announce about this series “

Speaking activities during year 2014

2014-06-09T16:27:00.002+03:00

Here are my speaking activities, during this year of 2014, Thanks for inviting organizations, JUGs, and international conferences. I hope to see you all in my sessions, workshop, answers your questions and added value to you. List of places, dates, and sessions titles: Deliver and present the following talks in many conferences world wide, as part of sharing my experiences and evangelist the

JEEConf 2014, Kiev, Ukraine trip report

2014-06-08T23:53:00.001+03:00

Very busy May. This May 2014 was a very busy month for me, I was so busy at work but thankfully I have finished all my heavy-duty tasks and left other managed tasks to my team to finish it till my back from my international trips. My Trips In last May 2014, first I went to Tunis, Tunisia, speaking at Esprit JUG Day 2014 on 7th and 8th of May, delivering the following 4 sessions: 1- What is

Interview with me in Tunisian Hannibal TV about Esprit JUG DAY 2014

2014-05-14T11:22:00.002+02:00

This is an interview with me in Tunisian Hannibal TV about Esprit JUG DAY 2014, my participation, what I liked and what I would like to see in future EsprIT Jug days. It is my pleasure and a great value to me that you proud of me, I am proud to be part of my Tunisian people and I consider it my country, changing our experience, I liked your school and the way you teach the great students you

Developer options does not exist on Android 4.2+

2014-04-14T14:58:00.001+02:00

While I am testing my android application, it is a good practice to test on real devices as much as I can. I was testing my APK file on devices but it failed, while on emulators it runs successfully, so I need to enable debugging with logCat bundled with Android ADT (eclipse or new Android studio IDE).So you need to connect your device to your computer via OEM USB driver, to deploy debugging APK

JavaSE: How to SET/GET your own Files and Directory Attributes

2014-03-16T15:08:00.000+02:00

In the previous article "Determining Views Supported by a Particular File System" and see how to ask the file system store, and see supportability of a particular file attribute view. We are going to explore in a nutshell, one of the most advanced and important files attribute views which is User-Defined File Attributes View.Particularly, I am using this feature a lot in my exchanged files

JavaSE 7,8: Determining Views Supported by a Particular File System

2014-03-13T12:21:00.000+02:00

If you have questions about a file or a directory, such as whether it is hidden, whether it is a directory, what its size is, and who owns it, you can get answers to those questions (and many others) from the metadata, which is data about other data. NIO.2 associates the notion of metadata with attributes and provides access to them through the java.nio.file.attribute package. Since different

Creating right mobile icons sizes for Android, iOS and Windows applications.

2014-03-02T14:06:00.000+02:00

p.MsoNormal { margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt } table.MsoTableMediumGrid3Accent1 { border:solid white 1.0pt} I am developing a mobile application that will serve all Egyptians people for a critical national project. It a service and management based mobile application which is related to Fuel locations finder and Customers fuel subsidy management card System.It will be released soon by the

Microsoft: Adding IntelliSense for jQuery in WebMatrix and Microsoft development tools.

2014-01-13T21:43:00.000+02:00

I had the opportunity to work with HTML5 APIs and jQuery development inside Microsoft WebMatrix, it is a light IDE and installed with libraries and extensions that made development richer. In order for WebMatrix to really be a useful as an editor for jQuery, I really wanted to have IntelliSense support for jQuery. However, the annoying issue is that WebMatrix does not have a built-in

JSF: Passing parameters to JSF action methods from page directly, a nice feature of JavaEE 6+

2013-12-27T22:33:00.000+02:00

One of the JSF 2+ nice features presented in Java enterprise edition JavaEE 6+, is that you can pass parameters to any action components action method like commandButton or commandLink components. Based on that you can minimize the number of methods inside your managed bean. In addition, to minimize many parameters to set inside the bean to be used by action to decide navigation logic, which

Oracle: ORA-00600 raised when creating triggers on 11g using JDeveloper or SQL Developer

2013-12-24T16:07:00.001+02:00

While I was preparing my database migration script for my project to satisfy specific version requirements, and as usual test it against database before submitting it to QA team. I got the following error with each "CREATE TRIGGER": BEGIN IF

Android: Boost up the Android emulator speed up to 400% on Intel based architecture

2013-12-09T15:41:00.000+02:00

In my previous post How to inject Android compiled .apk package into its Device Emulator from the command line. I have demonstrated how to add your compiled .apk file to android emulator, from command line with adb command, included in ADT platform tools. One of my friends commented: "Are u really using the emulator.....it is very slow. Even on the fastest machines. I always use a real device."

Android: How to inject Android compiled .apk package into its Device Emulator from the command line.

2013-12-05T23:56:00.000+02:00

I am developing multi-platform (iOS, Android, Windows, and Blackberry) hybrid mobile application for fuel stations finder, I am developing on Adobe Dreamweaver CC, and using Cordova, and PhoneGap tools as well for compilation and final apk, ipa, exe binaries. I am using Cordova for compiling the mobile application on both windows and Mac. Moreover, I want to test my compiled (.apk) application

JavaDay 2013: JCP & Adopt Kick off & What’s new in Java SE, EE, ME, Embedded world & new Strategy

2013-12-04T17:46:00.000+02:00

"What’s new in Java SE, EE, ME, Embedded world & the new Strategy" and "Drive yourself, community with JCP & adopts to professionalism" sessions I would like to share my successfully Java day story, and my happens by the response of my last event. I have successfully ran a JCP Kick off session titled "Drive yourself, community with JCP & adopts to professionalism" 2 hours followed by a session

JavaOne 2013 Rocks, and Java back to Glory days this year (Trip report)

2013-10-19T03:20:00.003+02:00

IntroductionYeah late report, but I am back since fourth of October, and having a strong workload. I am working on Enterprise Hybrid mobile application for almost main four different mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Windows 8, BlackBerry) that will serve the Egyptians all over the country, because it is part of our National project for "Fuel subsidy management System" applications, This mobile

JavaOne & OpenWorld 2013 Activities: One TUT Session, 2 JCP prize nominations, Oracle EMEA partner Dinner, and Architect club café member.

2013-09-13T01:21:00.001+02:00

JavaOne and Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Here are my activities during JavaOne and Oracle Open World 2013, San Francisco, California, USA, this year I have a lot of activities to do: Build.now(); True Real-Time Applications with Java EE 7 (A Hack Session) [TUT1805] This is for the second year; I have the chance to speak at JavaOne 2013. Last year my talks at JavaOne 2012 were about JDK7 NIO.2,

HTML5: Parse and Generate JSON data using only Javascript, no external APIs.

2013-09-07T04:37:00.001+02:00

JSON JavaScript Object Notation (best known as JSON) is a lightweight data interchange format known to be compatible with almost every language in common use. It is sometimes used in JavaScript as a replacement for other transport formats, like XML. JSON is a lightweight, text-based, language-independent data exchange format that is easy for humans and machines to read and write. JSON can

jQuery: Disabling the native right-click contextual menu of the browser

2013-09-05T14:07:00.000+02:00

Sometime you need to disable the default right-click context menu of the browser, on your web site, here is how to do it. By using JavaScript, you can disable the browser’s native right-click contextual menu. Doing so with jQuery is a snap. We simply cancel the contenxtmenu event. To test the functionality on your page, copy and paste the following code into index.html blank page: