Vladimir's personal websitehttps://vladimirj.dev/https://vladimirj.dev/firebase-predictions/https://vladimirj.dev/firebase-predictions/Firebase provides a wide variety of tools, something for every developer and something for every problem. But did you know that it has a tool that enables you to see into the future?!Fri, 22 May 2020 09:44:00 GMThttps://vladimirj.dev/intentionally-left-empty/https://vladimirj.dev/intentionally-left-empty/Doing copy/paste of the sample data from one project to another is not an option.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:44:00 GMThttps://vladimirj.dev/remote-sample-data/https://vladimirj.dev/remote-sample-data/Doing copy/paste of the sample data from one project to another is not an option.Sat, 10 Mar 2018 09:44:00 GMThttps://vladimirj.dev/layout-preview/https://vladimirj.dev/layout-preview/As every Android developer, I also started building my layouts by hard-coding values into them. Later on, I have realised that I should…Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:44:00 GMThttps://vladimirj.dev/giving-your-code-to-the-community/https://vladimirj.dev/giving-your-code-to-the-community/About two years ago, I started putting pieces of code on my GitHub page. And soon I have noticed that nobody was looking at it. My profile was dead.Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:44:00 GMThttps://vladimirj.dev/probably-the-language-of-god/https://vladimirj.dev/probably-the-language-of-god/During my university days, while I was studying Mathematics and CS, software development was refreshment of applied science in a sea of theoretical math. But then at my 4th semester I got the Prolog.Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:44:00 GMThttps://vladimirj.dev/say-my-name/https://vladimirj.dev/say-my-name/While you are writing your code, the most important thing to have in mind is that you are writing your code first and foremost for humans to understand, and secondly for a machine to interpret.Tue, 17 Oct 2017 09:44:00 GMThttps://vladimirj.dev/handling-configuration-changes/https://vladimirj.dev/handling-configuration-changes/What if you hold a static reference to the data in my Activity to preserve them on screen rotation? Why is that bad?Mon, 09 Oct 2017 10:44:00 GMThttps://vladimirj.dev/short-methods-ftw/https://vladimirj.dev/short-methods-ftw/My boss came to me and said: "Every method that you write should be less than 25 lines long" and I laughed, I laughed hard, right in his face. I was such a plonker!Mon, 02 Oct 2017 22:44:00 GMT