Moving from C++ to Java (J4A - 1)

Posted on Sat 22 February 2014 in J4A (Java for Android), Programming • Tagged with Android, Java

C to C++ and C++ to Java:

C was a powerful programming language but used structural approach. So when the length of code exceeded a particular no. of lines, the code became unmanageable. So this led to Object Oriented Programming techniques and birth of C++. But C++ compilers at that …


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Introduction and Syllabus (J4A - 0)

Posted on Sat 22 February 2014 in J4A (Java for Android) • Tagged with Android, Java

Hello geeks, (J4A) Java for Android is a series of tutorials for those who have good knowledge of C++ and want to switch to android without going into details of Core Java. So here we'll discuss ONLY THOSE features of JAVA (keywords, classes, concepts) which are used in android also …


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Second simple Android Application Part 3 (Android-Part 6)

Posted on Fri 14 February 2014 in Android • Tagged with Android

Welcome back geeks, so after pasting this code, you would be having the MainActivity.java file like this :

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In this screenshot, notice the highlighted part on the left. The Eclipse IDE is showing some errors at some specific lines (line no. 9 10,17,18 and so on). Now we …


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Second simple Android Application Part 2 (Android-Part 5)

Posted on Fri 14 February 2014 in Android • Tagged with Android

Welcome back geeks, this tutorial is a continuation of previous tutorial. So please read the previous one if you have not read it.

So we had created a simple layout and it looked something like this :

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Double click on the button to change the text of the button, now the …


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Second simple Android Application Part 1 (Android-Part 4)

Posted on Fri 14 February 2014 in Android • Tagged with Android

Hey Geeks ! Hope you all have gone through previous tutorials and are clear with the basics of android. Here we’ll create our second simple android application which will consist of creating our own layout and a bit of java coding. As discussed previously, the layout of our android application …


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KVM vs QEMU vs Libvirt

Posted on Fri 14 February 2014 in Linux • Tagged with kvm, libvirt, qemu, Virtualization

Since the day I started to read about the virtualization concept, I have been troubled by QEMU and KVM. They both look like complementary, but what exactly they do? And then there is libvirt, what role does it play? Let’s try to understand that.

KVM

When you dive deep into …


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Java: Autoboxing and -XX:AutoBoxCacheMax

Posted on Thu 13 February 2014 in Java • Tagged with Java

Autoboxing is the mechanism in Java to convert primitive type values to respective wrapper class object. Java programmer mostly use autoboxing while using collections, since collection only holds object and to put primitive type data into collection, it's need to use wrapper classes to convert into objects.

So , here is …


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XHTML and CSS - 1 - Overview and Downloading Text Editor

Posted on Sun 09 February 2014 in Web Development • Tagged with CSS, Free, Tutorial, Video, xhtml

Welcome to first tutorial in the Video Tutorial Series of XHTML and CSS, you can find list of all tutorials on XHTML and CSS , and you can watch andsubscribe the channel on YouTube.

Video Tutorial on XHTML and CSS 1. Overview and Downloading Text Editor

In this tutorial, we'll get started with Web Development by understanding how to develop webpages. The …


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Free Video Tutorials

Posted on Sun 09 February 2014 in misc

So, finally we decided to make the site more spicy by giving out free video tutorials for you so that you can understand stuff in a better way.

This page would be frequently updated with links to different sections and video tutorials

You can subscribe the Official Channel of TheGeekyWay …


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Java Multithreading : Thread States and Thread Priority

Posted on Sat 08 February 2014 in Java • Tagged with Java

In a thread lifecycle it can  have one of the  following states mentioned below. I have already explained Thread Life Cycle and basics of thread including Daemon Threads.

Now let see inside the thread states and how to achieve them .


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