I have been watching the FLOSS Weekly video podcast on and off for many years now. It was a special treat to be a guest of Randal yesterday. Together with Dain Sundstrom we talked about Presto and tried to answer … Read more →
I was always an avid reader, maxing out the number of books allowed for checkout from the library with each visit. And if I had the time I would still read as many books as way back when I was … Read more →
Just a quick note today. I released a new version of polyglot-maven with a significant refactor to the Kotlin dialect. Its much more idiomatic Kotlin code now and should results in better IDE support and features. Check it out!
Is it really nearly two years ago. Time certainly flies. My focus these days certainly has shifted away from Android development, but of course that does not mean I should let down the users of the plugin. So here it … Read more →
My trusty Maven Repository Provisioner needed a bit more attention again thanks to some pull requests from users. To make it worth the effort of cutting a release I decided to throw in some further updates.
In the Java/JVM and especially also in the Android eco-system the Kotlin programming language has found many friends and fans. It even is moving into native and web realms these days. With it popularity soaring it spreads out further and … Read more →
So it seems a whole bunch of users are still in a situation where the use SOAP webservices and my trusty ksoap-android project is of service to them. Great!
Within the last while I have ended up doing a whole bunch of merges on the maven-wrapper and the related takari-maven-plugin. In the end (fingers crossed) we are now at maven-wrapper: 0.5.4 and takari-maven-plugin:0.7.5. That includes a whole bunch of … Read more →
To be honest I am not sure if there are still many users of ksoap2-android out there. I have sorta left the Android development efforts myself. A few comments showed up in issues pointing to a missing module and I … Read more →
My little Maven Repository Provisioner tool needed better support for a few use cases and I got those all implemented and cut a new release.