Coming Up for Air
26
Aug 2025

Make Room for Some Data

So far, we have a runnable application that has two screens. We can navigate between those screens, but the app doesn’t really do anything. In this post, we’ll start to fix that. We’ll layout the data model for the application, then introduce the library, Android Room, we’ll use to...
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6
Aug 2025

Decompose Navigation: Let's Add a Screen

In the last post, we added the various pieces to make navigation possible and stopped JUST short of the goal line. In this post, we’ll finish up our navigation discussion by adding a new screen and seeing navigation...
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7
Jul 2025

What's Up with expect/actual?

In the last post, we saw — and then ignored — a couple of interesting keywords: expect and actual. In this short post, I’ll give what I hope is enough of an explanation to satisfy the mild...
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6
Jul 2025

Compose Multiplatform with Decompose

In this installation in my Mobile App Development series, I’m going to introduce our next architectural layer, Decompose. We’ll look at what it is, why you might want it, and how to g...
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25
Jun 2025

Mobile App Development Series Introduction

In recent years, I’ve found myself needing to build a mobile app here or there, and it has been, at times, a bit of a struggle as the landscape — and opinions about it — are wide and varied. There are debates about native, hybrid, and cross-platform approaches, and once you’ve made that decision, you have to wade through a lot of opinions on what library to use. This is especially true for the non-native approaches. What I’d like to do, then, is provide a how-to on the approach I have settled on, with a complete, working application to help someone else g...
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20
Mar 2025

This Blog Now Roqs. I mean... it always has, of course, but now it REALLY does

Years ago, I started this blog on Wordpress, then moved to awestruct, then to JBake, then to Jekyll. I’ve not done that because I like to change things (though I must admit I’ve enjoyed doing it each time ;), but because I’m looking for something that best suits my needs. I need to be able to post source code. It would be nice to be able to change theming — especially for source code — globally and easily. A static site would be nice for both performance and security. And as icing on the cake, being able to extend the build tool would be amazing. By chance in the past week or so, I was introduced to a new a tool, Roq, which is built in Java, and based on Quarkus. A whole lot of boxes were suddenly checked. Now, less than two weeks later, I’ve converted three sites, including this one. In this post, I’ll walk you through building your own static site t...
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3
Feb 2025

Coil AsyncImage with Authentication

I’ve been working on a side project that includes both a backend (Quarkus-based, of course) and a mobile app (I’m using Kotlin Multiplatform, but that’s a topic for another time). In this project, I need to display an image (think profile picture), but the link is secured, meaning I need to authenticate with the server to get it. I couldn’t find anything in the Coil docs explaining directly how to do that, but I was finally able to piece it together, and I’d like to share that here in case it helps so...
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My name is Jason Lee. I am a software developer living in the middle of Oklahoma. I’ve been a professional developer since 1997, using a variety of languages, including Java, Kotlin, C/C++, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Delphi, C#, and even a bit of COBOL and JCL. I currently work for IBM on the WildFly/EAP team, where, among other things, I maintain integrations for some MicroProfile specs, OpenTelemetry, Micrometer, Jakarta Faces, and Bean Validation. (Full resume here. LinkedIn profile)

I am the president of the https://okcjug.org[Oklahoma City Java User Group], and an occasional speaker at the JUG and a variety of technical conferences.

On the personal side, I’m active in my church, and enjoy bass guitar, running, fishing, and a variety of martial arts. I’m also married to a beautiful woman and have two boys, who, thankfully, look like their mother.

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