Marcos Placona’s Blog | Programming, technology and musings.

I use environment variables in all my apps to make sure none of my secret keys end up in GitHub. In C#, if you want to get environment variables in your app you just need to use the Environment class and call the method GetEnvironmentVariable() passing...

I don’t think I know a single Android developer who’s not stoked about Reactive Programming with RxAndroid right now. I totally dig the idea of subscribing to events emitted by my applications and be able to react accordingly.
With Rx you have Observables and Observers. Observables are expected to emit values. While Observers watch Observables by subscribing to them....

I love using Square’s Picasso library whenever I need to load images into my Android applications. It lets me load images from the internet into ImageViews with a single line of code.
Doing the same thing without the library is a whole different story, and Picasso even takes care of caching and transformations for me....

I took it upon myself to converting a couple of my domains to use Let’s Encrypt in order to offer a secure connection to them. If you haven’t heard about Let’s Encrypt by now you’ have probably been living under a rock. If that’s the case though, have...