- added more methods to the DateUtils class
  - attempting to generate maven pom file to make the project work with the maven build system as well as the gradle build system
 -  fixed an encoding error, due to java and its lovely checked exceptions
initial commit
 - reformatted code
 - started creating test classes
 - removed methods
 - added unit tests
 - formatted the pom file
 - reformatted code
Merge branch 'maven' into development

Conflicts:
	.gitignore
 - made the SharedPreferencesService class final
 - now throw an exception if there is no valid algorithm when getting the password
 - adding documentation to classes
 - reformatted code
 - adding more documentation
 - formatting code
 - adding more tests to the serialize manager class
 - added unit tests for the thread pool class
 - added unit tests for the string utils class
 - adding tests for the date utils class
 - added more unit tests for the date utils
 - changed the SerializeManagerTest class to not use the StringUtils class
 - cleaned up code