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Regulating Trade in the Asia-Pacific – Part I

The Asia-Pacific region has experienced dramatic economic growth since the early 20th century, leading to the creation of regional economic forums and free trade agreements. Within these forums, the principles of free trade and sovereignty play a complex role in balancing relations between states. Legislation in Southeast Asian countries developed

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Git Rebase: Change base branch

The following is a paraphrasing of the man page for git-rebase[1]. Suppose you have a feature branch feature/example-part1 forked from master and start working on another branch feature/example-part2 based on feature/example-part1, e.g. o---o---o---o---o master \ o---o---o---o---o feature/example-part1 \ o---o---o feature/example-part2 Now, suppose feature/example-part1 is

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Benchmarking JavaScript

Benchmark.js This is just a short note on benchmarking JavaScript code. I recently found the Benchmark.js library, which is used in the popular service jsPerf. It's easier than ever to start benchmarking your JS code! Now you've got no excuse. Benchmark.stats Have a look through the API

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Jacoco Code Coverage on Android

Alright, so you want to determine how well your test coverage is on Android? Good news, Android Tools has test coverage support since 0.10. It's fairly simple to get working if you don't fight it. First, add testCoverageEnabled = true to your buildTypes.debug closure in your build.gradle. Add

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Asynchronously Managing Fragments

I recently had several issues with the creation and management of a Fragment based on the result of an asynchronous operation. Now, right of the bat, I'll mention that Google specifically recommends against doing this, see here. A fragment is embedded in an activity, via the activity's FragmentManager. Their lives

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Using Mockito on Android

Mockito is a "Tasty mocking framework for unit tests in Java". It's quite popular, in fact at one point, it was measured as the Number 4 of Top 10 Java Libraries by usage on GitHub. See mockito.org for more. All you need to use Mockito in your

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Delete Invisible Code

Plans change over time. You may find that as time has passed, various routes have become redundant. Perhaps you nested attributes, or it simply turned out that you didn't need to use a specific action yet. However, if the code for these unused routes/views/controllers is still there, then