Unidev Tech Blog

Quick Tips: Helpful Firefox Add-ons

Justin Miller — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:31:47 +0000

Web developers and programmers test on the Internet constantly. Web browsers and software updates all help make browsing faster, easier and more customizable to your needs. But did you know that many developers use thousands of applications, add-ons and extensions to further the user customization experience in each browser? Compiled by our development team, take [...]

Calling Web Service Over SSL Using Spring

George — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:31:59 +0000

As a Systems Engineer at Unidev I work on a wide variety of projects and my most recent project requires web service calls via SSL. The specific project uses Spring Framework. As we know, SSL framework is provided by Java SE Security (JSSE) which is automatically included in the JDK now. But you have to [...]

Buffer Overflow

Brian Cooper — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:35:28 +0000

While debugging a program that had dumped core on HP-UX, I noticed some oddities in the stack trace the required a bit of further investigation. As the code I was looking at is client code, I cannot share it online. This post shows analysis done under CentOS Linux of a trivial program I constructed with [...]

Sencha Touch and PhoneGap are Opening the Doors for Mobile Possibilities

Kevin Collins — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:00:16 +0000

It’s easy to say mobile development is continuing to grow every day with no signs of slowing down. Creating ways for users to access all the features a company has to offer are continuously sought after. With Sencha Touch and PhoneGap, it’s become much easier for developers to create powerful and intuitive applications, for users [...]

New Features in Java 7.0 With Examples

Dhanya James — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:51:36 +0000

Java 7.0 came up with a number of new features including the Diamond operator in Generics, Strings in switch statement, multi catch exception handling, underscores in numeric literals, Fork and Join and also new File system API (NIO 2.0). Given below are few new features of Java 7.0 with examples. Numeric Literals with underscore : [...]

How to Migrate from HP-UX to Linux: NULL

Scott McKellar — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:16:29 +0000

On Linux I tried to compile a C program that I had brought over from HP-UX and got the following warning: foo.c: In function 'bar': foo.c:42: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast The code in question terminates a character string with a nul character. However, instead of coding the nul character as [...]

Panel View or Multiple Horizontal Pager View in Android

Ravi Julakanti — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:12:59 +0000

Android doesn’t provide a default horizontal pager view. It appears as though the Gallery and Horizontal Scroll View can provide this same functionality. The solution described below allows for easy left and right swipes to load different screens controlled by a single activity. We’ll look at an example of how to use these classes to [...]

Outsourcing Mobile Development

Rob Vigil — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:04:30 +0000

As a senior mobile software developer here at Unidev, with over 20 years of client, web-based, and mobile development under my belt, I have learned one simple truth. Software development companies are not the same. Outsourcing overseas, although inexpensive, comes at a price. Many times clients look for the quick, cheap way to get their [...]

Optimizing for the iPhone “Retina Display” and Other High Resolution Devices

Kevin Collins — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:29:16 +0000

Optimizing for the iPhone “Retina Display” and Other High Resolution Devices The iPhone 4 and new iPhone 4s come featured with Apple’s “Retina Display”. This is a 3.5 inch screen with a resolution of 960×640 at 326 pixel per inch. Compared to its predecessor, the iPhone 3GS, this display is a very significant improvement. Once [...]

Test of Spring MVC annotations

George — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:10:14 +0000

Spring 3 MVC annotation based controller make Unit Testing real easy and straight forward. Since you don’t have to implement any interface or extend super classes for controller as you used to do in Spring 2, you can call methods in controller directly for Unit Testing without Spring or any other container. With Spring MVC [...]