(Delpin Susai Raj) Xamarin is a platform to develop cross-platform and multi-platform apps (for example, Windows phone, Android and iOS). In the Xamarin platform, the code sharing concept is used. In Xamarin Studio, Visual Studio is also available.

(Qadeer Khan) This is a short summary of Joshua Blochs book Effective Java chapter 3. I have only included items that are relevant for myself.

(Sergey Yaskov) If you have a string of date/time without time zone information, you can have unexpected results due to Java default time zone.

(Bill O’Neil) Dropwizard Metrics makes it easy to create a class, override check methods, and register them, enabling you to call all of your Java service’s health checks.

(Priyaranjan K S) SharePoint top navigation bar helps users to navigate to other sites. Top Navigation is also referred to as Global Navigation because it remains the same throughout site collection. However, subsites can be configured in a way so that the top navigation does not come up in the top

(Sayem Ahmed) Let’s directly start with an example. Consider a simple web service which allows clients to place order to a shop. A very simplified version of the order controller could look something like below –

(Gaurav Rai Mazra) PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer is a handy way to externalize the properties you want to use in a property file so that they’re still resolved when starting the app.

(lukaseder) Kotlin is the next big thing. With Google announcing official support for Kotlin on Android, we’ll see a lot more traction for this lovely language.

(Rafael Winterhalter) In the past weeks there has been a heated debate around the imminent release of Java 9 and its most famous feature: the Java platform module system – the JPMS – which is better known under its project umbrella‘s name Jigsaw.

(Ramakrishna Basagalla) JS Link property is a new addition in SharePoint 2013. This is a great feature with which users can control the rendering of fields, items, and even Web Parts, using a JavaScript File (referenced in JS Link property field of a Web Part).