Sat.May 30, 2015 - Fri.Jun 05, 2015

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From Bitmap To Base64 And Back With Native Android

The Polyglot Developer

Working with images in Android is great, but what happens when you need to store them somewhere other than the file system? Let’s say for example you want to store them in a SQLite or NoSQL type database. How would you store such a piece of data? One common way to store image data would be to first convert the image into a base64 string. We all know strings are very easy to store in some data structure.

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Would Uber be so intriguing if we thought of it as the next American Airlines?

The Agile Manager

Suppose for a minute that self-driving cars become commercially available. Obviously, a lot has to happen before we get to that point, but suppose that it does. What happens to the economics of ground transportation? Today, cars are owned or leased by individuals (households) or fleet operators (delivery firms or rental car companies). Auto manufacturers sell to dealers, who sell to individuals and firms; finance companies from universal banks to specialist lenders finance the trade.