Links for September 23rd through September 27th

Posted on September 27, 2014 by Vinny

Mobile App Tutorial: The Meeting Room Booking App, Part 3 – This is the third part of a mobile web app tutorial where we are building a Meeting Room Booking app that is used to browse an inventory of meeting rooms and reserve rooms for conference calls and other events.
Snitch – SSL Expiration Monitoring and Alerting. Snitch worries about your SSL certificates so you don’t have to. – Snitch worries about your SSL certificates so you don’t have to.
Android 4.4 KitKat, the browser and the Chrome WebView #mobile #webapps – Android 4.4 has made a big change in the OS’ internals for HTML5 development: it has replaced its original WebKit-based WebView with modern Chromium. The new Android Browser is also powered by Chromium but it’s not clear yet its future. Besides the good ne
Red Hat is moving from Linux to OpenStack as its primary breadwinner. – Red Hat CEO announces a shift from client-server to cloud computing | ZDNet
IntelliJ IDEA 14 Ships Advanced Coding Assistance for Thymeleaf – If you’re using Thymeleaf (the coolest template engine for Java) in your project or just considering giving it a try, you’ll be excited to know that the latest EAP build of the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 14 brings rich coding assistance for editing Thymeleaf templates.
Free for students: Professional developer tools from JetBrains – JetBrains Makes its Products Free for Students
Backblaze Blog » Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014 – At Backblaze we now have 34,881 drives and store over 100 petabytes of data. We continually track how our disk drives are doing, which ones are reliable, and which ones need to be replaced.
iOS UI: Choosing between Pickers and Table Views – Pickers and table views are great ways to provide your user with an easier way to enter data in your app – and they allow you to control the input you receive so you get less garbage.

Links for September 18th through September 23rd

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Vinny

Apcera Continuum is a policy-driven platform that gives IT the agility it wants and the governance it needs. – Continuum is a policy-driven platform that gives IT the agility it wants and the governance it needs.
Homescreen Web Applications lose Timing Functions after Lock/Wake #ios8 – Calls to requestAnimationFrame, setTimeout and setInterval stop working when you return to the application from a Lock/Wake cycle
Creating Native Windows 8 Apps with Ext JS 5 #sencha #extjs5 – By embracing HTML5, Microsoft has opened new doors for developers and provided access to new markets for HTML5 developers. Equally important, Microsoft has shifted from laggard to leader in HTML5 support—and in so doing has signaled strong support for the
iOS 8 and iPhone 6 for web developers and designers: next evolution for Safari and native webapps | Breaking the Mobile Web – iOS 8 is finally here while the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus will appear in a few days. New APIs appears on scene, as well as new challenges to support the new screen sizes. I’ve been playing with the final version and here you have my findings
Alex Payne – Thoughts On Five Years of Emerging Languages – Alex Payne with a great article looking at recent trends in language design. Swift gets a mention and LLVM gets several. A very interesting read.
WKWebView – Hybrid web apps now get a performance boost – WKWebView is the centerpiece of the modern WebKit API introduced in iOS 8 & OS X Yosemite. It replaces UIWebView in UIKit and WebView in AppKit, offering a consistent API across the two platforms.
Apple Shows Love for HTML5 with iOS 8 #web #html5 #standards – This post documents our performance and technical breakdowns of the current state of HTML5 as iOS 8 becomes the baseline for Apple devices
iOS 8 brings big boost for Web programmers #iOS8 #websql #indexeddb – Apple's newest operating system supports WebGL and IndexedDB, two standards that'll make websites much more capable on its mobile devices. Also new: a faster Web with SPDY.
Simply Secure – Security’s got to be easy and intuitive, or it won’t work. – We are a service organization that works with users, software developers, user-experience experts, designers, and the community of people striving to make ubiquitous privacy and security a reality. We seek to understand existing challenges – while collabor
Announcing Keyless SSL: All the Benefits of CloudFlare Without Having to Turn Over Your Private SSL Keys #security #innovation – CloudFlare is an engineering-driven company. This is a story we're proud of because it embodies the essence of who we are: when faced with a problem, we found a novel solution. Technical details to follow but, until then, welcome to the no hardware world.

Links for September 15th through September 17th

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Vinny

iOS 8 – A big, developer-centric update completes the overhaul started in iOS 7 – A big, developer-centric update completes the overhaul started in iOS 7.
Cisco acquires Metacloud, boosting Intercloud, OpenStack efforts #openstack #cloudcomputing – The privately-held cloud player will be snapped up for an undisclosed sum as the networking giant aims to bolster its inter-connected cloud effort, run on open-source OpenStack.
Majority of mobile apps will fail basic security tests in the future: Gartner #security #mobile – The research firm claims that 75 percent of all mobile applications will fail basic security tests next year — leaving the enterprise vulnerable.
Microsoft creates a keyboard for iOS and Android tablets | The Verge – Microsoft has created a keyboard designed for iOS, Android, and Windows tablets. The new Universal Mobile Keyboard is very similar to Logitech’s K480 keyboard, and Microsoft’s version also includes a button to switch between iOS, Android, and Windows Bluetooth modes.
IBM Watson Data Analysis Service Revealed #cloudcomputing #freemium – IBM on Tuesday announced the upcoming release of a cloud-based Watson Analytics service that promises to streamline and simplify the data-analysis process for untrained business users.
Meteor 0.9.2: Building iOS and Android mobile apps with PhoneGap – Meteor 0.9.2 is out today, and with it we have big news: our first support for building mobile apps in Meteor, for both iOS and Android! Now with just a few new Meteor commands you can add PhoneGap / Cordova packages to your app to access native device API
14 Xcode Time Saving Keyboard Shortcuts – Memorize and Improve Your Productivity – The following keyboard shortcuts for Xcode 6 are the best ones to learn first. You will probably use them every day after you learn them.
Transportation optimization starts with math, but ends in understanding human behavior – Modeling the real world, with constraints like melting ice cream and idiosyncratic human behavior, is often where the real challenge lies.
Getting Started with JHipster on OS X #spring #angularjs – JHipster seems like a nice project, so I figured I'd try to find the causes of my issues. This article is designed to save you the pain I had. If you'd rather just see the steps to get up and running quickly, skip to the summary.
RESThub is a stack based on Spring and Backbone.js designed to build HTML5 applications easily and efficiently – RESThub is a stack based on Spring and Backbone.js designed to build HTML5 applications easily and efficiently. It provides tooling, libraries and documentation in order to build modular web applications with client side state, stateless server and REST we

Links for September 14th through September 15th

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Vinny

Scaling Agile – list of interesting items to read from @matt_davey #agile #tradingdesk – Scaling Agile – list of interesting items to read from @matt_davey
Building an Enterprise PaaS #paas – Dave McCrory discusses what it takes to build an Enterprise Platform as a Service, covering data services, core application capabilities and design principles, CI, monitoring, coding standards, dependencies, security, and deployment.
The Space Between Theory and Practice in Distributed Systems – That's the gap I am talking about: material that explains how the practice is synthesized from the theory, and how the theory is based off analysis of the practice. The exercise of synthesis is very seldom straight forward, but we too frequently leave it t
Capital Market Big Data Use Cases #bigdata – Alex Raitt, Clive Saha present design patterns and use cases of capital market firms that are incorporating big data technologies into their credit risk analysis, price discovery or sentiment analysis software. They also discuss various technology stacks a
Developer Tools for PhoneGap, Cordova and Ionic in IntelliJ IDEA 14 #phonegap #idea13 #ionic – We’re pleased to announce that both IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm will officially support PhoneGap, Apache Cordova and Ionic frameworks with the installation of dedicated plugin.
IntellIJ IDEA 14 Brings Better GWT’s Super Dev Mode Support #gwt #idea14 – If you’re already using, or just considering the use of GWT in your projects, you’re going to be glad to know that IntellIJ IDEA 14 will feature significant improvements in this area, aimed to streamline development workflow.
The laws of shitty dashboards #analytics #visualization #dashboard – I have been responsible for building shitty dashboard. I personally made most of the errors below. I heretofore apologize to my users and pledge not to do it again. Hopefully, these anti-patterns can help PMs, designers and engineers reduce a bit the amoun
Ratpack: Simple, lean & powerful HTTP apps – Ratpack is a set of Java libraries that facilitate fast, efficient, evolvable and well tested HTTP applications.
Why You Should NOT Implement Layered Architecture #interesting #pragmatic – Abstraction layers in software are what architecture astronauts tell you to do. Instead, however, half of all applications out there would be so easy, fun, and most importantly: productive to implement if you just got rid of all those layers.
TinyCert – become your own PKI/cert authority. Better than self-signed certs #security #certs – Become your own PKI / certificate authority in a matter of minutes. Generate and manage SSL certificates quickly and easily without looking up complex OpenSSL commands.
New York Times opens up their APIs – RESTful services and a resource-oriented architecture – New York Times opens up their APIs – RESTful services and a resource-oriented architecture

Links for September 10th through September 14th

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Vinny

How And Why Apple’s Trying To Take Over Your Life – It can’t rely on iPhone success forever – The plan: Reboot the iPhone product line as a beautiful phablet line, give the larger flagship an even bigger premium sibling, introduce Apple’s first-ever smartwatch, and tackle brand-new categories—from health and fitness to mobile payments.
Why HP bought Eucalyptus: An easy way to go hybrid – HP picks up hybrid cloud expertise to round out its growing cloud portfolio — and a great bargain on the deal
Cloud Platform for Startups by Google – $100,000 in credit and 24/7 support for eligible startups – $100,000 in credit and 24/7 support for eligible startups.
Focus on building your product and don’t worry about complex
infrastructure. Google manages your application, database,
and storage servers so you don’t have to.
9 Rules for the Developer-ization of IT | CIO – CIOs who want to drive innovation and change in their organizations should focus on making the lives of developers easier so they can innovate, produce great apps and deliver valuable IP
iPhone and iPad app building will be easier on iOS 8, say developers #swift – Improvements to beta testing and app vetting relieve some of developers’ biggest pain points
Inside Apple’s Live Event Stream Failure, And Why It Happened: It Wasn’t A Capacity Issue – The bottom line with this event is that the encoding, translation, JavaScript code, the video player, the call to S3 single storage location and the millisecond refreshes all didn’t work properly together and was the root cause of Apple’s failed attempt to

Links for September 9th through September 10th

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Vinny

Swift Has Reached 1.0 #swift #ios – On June 2, 2014 at WWDC, the Swift team finally showed you what we had been working on for years. That was a big day with lots of excitement, for us and for developers around the world. Today, we’ve reached the second giant milestone – Swift version 1.0 is GA
The Hacker ‘Skills Gap’ May Be More of a Strategy Gap – Hackers are succeeding with what appears to be alarming regularity. But that may not be because they are smarter or even better trained than defenders, but because they think, and attack, more strategically
11 open source security tools catching fire on GitHub – Malware analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics — GitHub hosts a number of compelling tools for securing computing environments of all sizes
iOS 8’s hidden revolution goes way beyond the iPad and iPhone – Handoff, Touch ID, extensions, HealthKit, CloudKit, and HomeKit are all part of a larger plan that moves liquid computing forward
Crosswalk is a web runtime for ambitious HTML5 applications – Crosswalk is a web runtime for ambitious HTML5 applications. It provides all the features of a modern browser, combined with deep device integration and an API for adding native extensions. It is especially suited to mobile devices, with support for both Android and Tizen

Links for September 7th through September 9th

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Vinny

Xen & Docker: Made for Each Other! – Docker is a really promising and growing technology. With Docker and Xen on the same team, the two technologies work in tandem to create an extremely efficient, best-of-breed infrastructure. Finally uniting them in one interface is a big leap ahead!
Why Google is Hurrying the Web to Kill SHA-1 – Most of the secure web is using an insecure algorithm, and Google's just declared it to be a slow-motion emergency.
JSON Web Tokens – jwt.io – JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties. The claims in a JWT are encoded as a JSON object that is digitally signed using JSON Web Signature
We’ve reached the end of “build it yourself” software #buildvsbuy – It doesn’t make sense for most companies to build their own software in-house when pre-fabricated solutions are available.
The Codist: Lessons From A Lifetime Of Being A Programmer – Over my 3 decades of being a programmer, I have learned a few things. Here are a few goodies. I bet I can make more.

Links for September 7th from 02:23 to 02:54

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Vinny

How Andreessen Horowitz Is Disrupting Silicon Valley #startup #vc – One thing is certain: the new firm in town has made all the other venture capital firms look like white sheep, upended from a steady state by the rise of angel investing, and Andreessen Horowitz, perhaps the blackest sheep firm of them all.
Have we all been duped by the Myers-Briggs test? #psychometric – Despite its popularity, the personality test has been subject to sustained criticism by professional psychologists for over three decades.
Recommended Reading for Security, computer security, digital forensics, incident response, malware analysis – This page lists books that I have found to be highly relevant and useful for learning topics within computer security, digital forensics, incident response, malware analysis, and reverse engineering.
Why Amazon Has No Profits (And Why It Works) | Andreessen Horowitz – When you buy Amazon stock (the main currency with which Amazon employees are paid, incidentally), you are buying a bet that he can convert a huge portion of all commerce to flow through the Amazon machine. The question to ask isn’t whether Amazon is some p
RunSwift allows you to try Apple’s Swift programming language from within the browser. – RunSwift allows you to try Apple's Swift programming language from within the browser. While you cannot import abitrary modules, a small subset of Foundation is included.
Seven lessons I learned from the failure of my first startup, Dinnr #startup #lessons – This rather long blog post is about my lessons learned and is a post mortem. I will try not to go too much into the Dinnr specifics. Most of the readers of this post will not be interested in Dinnr itself. Instead, I will try to reflect on my 18 months and
Vagrant, SaltStack, Ansible, Docker, Chef, Puppet, Packer, Foreman – Why, when & how! – Vagrant, SaltStack, Ansible, Docker, Chef, Puppet, Packer, Foreman – Why, when & how!
Tutorial: A Simple iOS Stopwatch App in Swift – In this tutorial, we will create a single view iOS application using the Swift programming language

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