The core idea of Package Drone is to extract meta data from files and generated some sort of repository index. And although Package Drone’s main focus is on OSGi, we did want to implement a YUM repository adapter and for this we needed to extract metadata from RPM files.

While preparing for EclipseCon Europe 2015 (a few weeks back I have to say, it was a great conference) I again wanted to a have a small mobile helper. So instead of forgetting (again) about it, this time I briefly wrote it down. So here it is.

Dear Google,

Today it happened again. I left my mobile phone at home. I realized that before entering the train, so I went back, grabbed it and went back to catch the next train. This gave me a few minutes to think about that ;-)

One of the most advertised use cases of the new lambdas in Java 8 is the possibility to stream collections and transform it. The “series of tubes” has a lot of examples on how to do this, I just wanted to look at it from a different perspective, readability.

Dear Google,

as a subscriber of Google Music I often search for music I listened to in the past. In many cases I do know the title, artist or sometime the name of the album.