Introduction A while back I needed to implement a custom option for text selection toolbar. What is a text selection toolbar you might ask? It is the options- box that is shown when highlighting text: What I needed was a custom button that could execute a custom action on the selected…

In this article, I share tips for starting programmers. These can help you in your career! :) World of Programming When you start as a programmer, a new world opens up. The world of programming is somewhat different from the “normal” world. A world that you must navigate with strict logical rules. There…

As of late, I have been writing for my doctoral dissertation. While writing, I have noticed parallels between programming and writing. In this article, I share my thoughts about the two. Background For most of my life, I did not think much of writing. It is something that I did only…

There are two rendering methods to build Flutter Web application. I wanted to test benchmarking these two methods. The results were confusing. Flutter Web renderers HTML renderer. “Uses a combination of HTML elements, CSS, Canvas elements, and SVG elements. This renderer has a smaller download size.” Source: Flutter docs 2. CanvasKit renderer. “This…

In this article I’m discussing the risks of modernizing a legacy system and the risks of not modernizing. Furthermore, I write about the approaches that are often applied when modernizing a legacy system. Risks of modernizing legacy system Legacy systems seldom have a complete documentation specifying the whole system with all its functions and use…

In this article I’m covering the traditional life cycle stages of a typical software system. Additionally, I’m describing what is software aging and what causes it. Software life cycles 1. Initial development During the initial development, the first versions of the software are planned and developed. …

Introduction This report reviews new devices and technologies that might change the gaming in the future. The first part of this paper focuses on the new technologies, how they work, and how they can be applied to games. …

Introduction This is the second part of my two part series where I develop Flutter package plugin. If you have not read the first part I recommend doing so from this link. In the first part we went through the basics of package development and how to create a package, we…

Introduction I ran into an issue some time ago. I wanted to build Flutter application that could convert PDF files to speech, to help me with school work. The idea was simple; read the text from PDF file and convert it to speech with the flutter_tts plugin. However, I ran into…