The ConPanion
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.
You left your phone!
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 ;-)
Java 8 streaming – or not?
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.
Searching for lyrics in Google Music
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.
Calling from Google search
Dear Google …
… I just did a search for some business an Google and actually the first hit and the suggestion box on the right side is the perfect match for what I was looking for. The info box contains all the relevant information, including the phone number, which is a clickable link.