Links for November 23rd through November 24th

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Vinny

Brian Goetz on challenges and lessons of steering Java through major evolutionary changes #java – Programming language design is not just about type theory and grammars. For evolving a mature programming language like Java, it is about finding ways to add capabilities while maintaining compatibility, both with existing code and with the expectations an
ExecutorService – 10 tips and tricks #java #threading – The reason I'm bringing this up is that many Java programmers still don't fully understand how ExecutorService works. There are many places to learn that, today I wanted to share few lesser known features and practices. However this article is still aimed
A tiny networking library in #Swift – Composing functions out of functions – I think designing a library like this has a lot of benefits. We provided some base functionality, and then by composing and wrapping functions into new functions we quickly made it very specific to our app without having to put in much effort.
Animations in Swift / iOS 8 – Part II – This tutorial looks at some more animation functions that require a little bit more setting up to create, but once mastered opens up an even larger number of possibilities.
Prototyping Animations in Swift / iOS 8 – If you’ve ever wanted to learn enough programing to create rich prototypes and interactive or generative animations now’s a great time to begin. This tutorial will show you the basics of creating animations with Swift1.
Design Patterns implemented in Swift – A short cheat-sheet with Xcode 6 Playground – Design Patterns implemented in Swift – A short cheat-sheet with Xcode 6 Playground
SwiftyJSON – The better way to deal with JSON data in Swift – SwiftyJSON makes it easy to deal with JSON data in Swift.
Nexus 6 Review: A Big, Beautiful, Cumbersome Beast #android #nexus6 – I wanted the Nexus 6 to be the next phone like that. It’s not.
Lister – best-practice app for Apple Watch, iOS, and OS X from Apple – updated for WatchKit – Lister is a document based productivity app for iOS 8, OS X 10.10, and Apple Watch. It demonstrates Apple Watch integration; using iCloud to share content between multiple app targets and platforms; using App Groups to share local content between apps and
API design as if humans actually mattered – This is one of my favorite papers! A lot of their decisions were made so that their service would be useful for humans, as opposed to for some technical reason. The entire reason they built a lock service instead of a library was so that it would be easy t
How to reward skilled coders with something other than people management – The obvious answer is to put them in charge of the team they've built, especially as they're the de-facto leader of the team already. But is this what they want? Or just what they believe they're supposed to want?

Links for November 21st through November 22nd

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Vinny

iOS8 Day-by-Day – iOS8 Day-by-Day is a blog series covering all that an iOS developer needs to know about the new technologies and APIs available to them in iOS8. That page will be an auto-updating index of all of the posts so far, so you can ensure that you haven't missed a day.
An amazing peek into the massive scale of AWS #amazon #aws – An amazing peek into the massive scale of AWS – can't imagine 5 million servers!
The Future of the Web (According to Google) – I spent the past two days at the Chrome Developer Summit in Mountain View. While the entire event was livestreamed and is now on YouTube, I thought it might be useful to talk a bit about where things seem to be going, at least from my perspective on Google
The Secret Life of Passwords – NYTimes.com – We despise them – yet we imbue them with our hopes and dreams, our dearest memories, our deepest meanings. They unlock much more than our accounts.
Magnet rest2mobile – A FREE tool that generates native code for REST services – A FREE tool that generates native code for REST services
Spring Roo 1.3.0 introduces JDK 8 support – Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java, allowing you to create full web enterprise applications in just minutes.
How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web – Java-to-JavaScript is handled by the Google Web Toolkit SDK, which has been around for some time. The real enabler for Inbox is called J2ObjC, which, as the name implies, converts Java code meant for Android into iOS-ready Objective-C code.
Android Work takes shape as Google’s BYOD Divide surfaces on Play #byod #android #enterprise – Google is upping the ante in its push for Android's place in the enterprise, launching the BYOD-focused Divide app under a special 'IT Preview' program that requires the device that the app is installed on has been enrolled in a number of specific enterpri
Amazon’s AppStream can now stream any Windows application #streamingapps – Amazon expands support for its streaming service that targets games developers to any Windows application.
Swift Initialization and the Pain of Optionals #swiftlang #swift – Swift’s strict initialisation process results in a number of practical issues, leaving developers scratching their heads. This post explores a few solution including two-phase initialisation, the use of optionals and lazy properties.

Links for November 17th through November 21st

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Vinny

What you need to know about WatchKit #ios #watchkit #wearables – Apple was kind enough to publish a few informational guidelines and a 28-minute video in the public-facing area of their developer center.
SQLite.swift – A type-safe, Swift-language layer over SQLite3 #swift – A type-safe, Swift-language layer over SQLite3. SQLite.swift provides compile-time confidence in SQL statement syntax and intent.
Google Lovefield – A cross-browser, SQL-like, relational query engine built on top of #IndexedDB – Lovefield is a relational query engine built on top of IndexedDB. It provides SQL-like syntax and works cross-browser (currently supporting Chrome 37+, Firefox 31+, and IE 10+).
Cyber-Attacks Force Firms to Prepare for the Worst | FTF News – As cyber-attacks increase, a PwC survey and an FTF OpRisk panel underscore the importance of budgeting and crafting an effective cyber-security strategy.
Colossus: A New Service Framework from Tumblr #scala #akka – Colossus is a new framework developed at Tumblr which addresses these challenges. It offers a lightweight, straightforward model for building high-performing microservices. Written in Scala and built on NIO and the Akka actor framework, Colossus has had a
Nginx claims more top websites at Apache’s and Microsoft’s expense #nginx – Depending on who you ask, Nginx is either the second- or third-most widely used Web server. Among the most heavily trafficked sites, though, it's headed straight to the top.
Haneke – A lightweight generic cache for iOS written in Swift with extra love for images. – Haneke is a lightweight generic cache for iOS written in Swift. It's designed to be super-simple to use. Haneke provides a memory and LRU disk cache for UIImage, NSData, JSON, String or any other type that can be read or written as data.
REST app built and deployed in five minutes or less – YouTube – In the linked screencast, I show how über easy Spring has made it to pick the parts for your app from http://start.spring.io, define your domain, and then export them as a hypermedia-driven RESTful service.
CPU Flame Graphs #dtrace #linux – Profiling data can be thousands of lines long, and difficult to comprehend. Flame graphs are a visualization for sampled stack traces, which for CPU profile data allows hot code-paths to be identified quickly and accurately
Amazon’s ability to invest in AWS: By the numbers $AMZN – AWS chief Andy Jassy was asked whether Amazon had the funds to compete with the cash piles of Microsoft and Google in the cloud wars. Here's a look at his answer and the numbers that back it up.
The Critical Path Podcast: How Big is iCloud? – Apples Services business is growing by leaps and bounds. How much of that can be attributed to iCloud? Horace and Anders consider how big the iCloud business is for Apple, as well as Apples recent stock price rise in this “rolling show” on the way to the airport.
FnordMetric – Create charts and dashboards from SQL – FnordMetric allows you to write SQL queries that return SVG charts rather than tables. Turning a query result into a chart is literally one line of code.

Links for November 14th through November 16th

Posted on November 16, 2014 by Vinny

lambda2sql – Convert Java 8 lambdas to SQL statements. Build type safe and readable queries. – Convert Java 8 lambdas to SQL statements. Build type safe and readable queries.
Create a Facebook Style Sliding Menu in Sencha Touch @mvorpagel – The Facebook style sliding menu has become a widely used design pattern in mobile applications. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the power of HTML5 and Sencha Touch's Menu class to create your own sliding menu.
Swift with Sam – A beginner’s guide to building clean, fun iOS apps – Swift with Sam is a complete instructional video series that teaches you how to build your own iPhone app from scratch, even if you’ve never written a line of code in your life.
Swift iOS Tutorial – Unlock your app with Touch ID – YouTube – In this tutorial, we'll be using iOS 8's new Touch ID API to hide some information (a top secret diary entry) behind the touch ID login. We'll also go through and understand how to provide error messages for the user if they're using an unsupported version or if the login was unsuccessful.
Finally—Business Intelligence Comes To Big Data by @mjasay – BI has been largely a waste, though that may be changing.
Google’s Larry Page: The most ambitious CEO in the universe – As Google’s core business continues to thrive, Larry Page is making huge bets on new technology—ingestible nanoparticles, balloons that beam down broadband—that could define the future.
Marc Andreessen joins WSJ’s Jonathan Krim at WSJD Live conference to discuss bitcoin and the next biggest technology trends via @dgreller – American entrepreneur Marc Andreessen joins WSJ's Jonathan Krim at WSJD Live conference to discuss bitcoin and the next biggest technology trends
Amazon’s Cloud Looks Unstoppable – And Databases Are Its Next Target #aurora – Amazon showed its cloud ambition this week in multiple ways. But one that should most alarm the enterprise technology behemoths is Aurora, a high-end relational database-as-a-service offering that complements existing investments in MySQL and its home-grown NoSQL offering, DynamoDB.
Using MongoDB and Mongoose for User Registration, Login and Logout in a Mobile Application – This mobile application tutorial shows you how to create a user registration, login and logout backend using MongoDB and Mongoose. This article is part of a series of mobile application development tutorials that I have been publishing on my blog MiamiCode
Amazon Announces EC2 Container Service For Managing Docker Containers On AWS – At its re:invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon today announced its first Docker-centric product: the EC2 Container Service for managing Docker containers on its cloud computing platform.

Links for November 12th through November 14th

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Vinny

Amazon ECS turns Docker containers into the new VMs #docker #aws – Amazon's ECS launches Docker containers directly in EC2 instances, with automated clustering, scheduling, and management
Docker on course for next big frontier: Container monitoring #docker – As Docker grows, so too does the need to monitor containers and their apps, and third parties are stepping up
AWS Lambda – Node.js apps that run based on events #reinvent – AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources for you, making it easy to build applications that respond quickly to new information
Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) – Container Management for the AWS Cloud #docker – This service will make it easy for you for run any number of Docker containers across a managed cluster of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances using powerful APIs and other tools. You do no
Sketch to App Store – Generate App Store images for all iPhone sizes from Sketch – With the new iPhones, it's now a huge pain to create screenshots for iTunes Connect. This tool was created to save you a ton of time.
Apprenda: The Leader in Enterprise Platform as a Service #paas – Apprenda is a PaaS software layer that transforms any infrastructure into a policy-driven, hybrid cloud application platform.
This is pretty cool – Git hook to convert your TODOs into Github issues – Git hook to convert your TODOs into Github issues
AWS CodeDeploy – automates code deployments to Amazon EC2 instances – AWS CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to Amazon EC2 instances. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your application
Microsoft shocker: Open-source .NET, free Visual Studio, support for Linux, Mac, Android and iOS – Taken together, the moves are a massive bet by the company, intended to make Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform more competitive by significantly increasing the flexibility of the company’s developer technologies.
Announcing .NET 2015 – .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual Studio Community – It's happening. It's the reason that a lot of us came to work for Microsoft, and I think it's both the end of an era but also the beginning of amazing things to c
iMAS – iOS Mobile Application Security, Defense for your iOS App – iMAS helps developers encrypt app data, prompt for passwords, prevent app tampering, and enforce enterprise policies on iOS devices.

Links for November 8th through November 11th

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Vinny

GitHub Enterprise 2.0 – A faster, more flexible GitHub Enterprise. – New features make it easier for you and your team to take on code review, issue tracking, and software deployment, all with the added benefit of a number of security and performance improvements.
How we’ve made Raptor up to 4x faster than Unicorn, up to 2x faster than Puma, Torquebox – Raptor is a new Ruby web server that's up to 4x faster than Unicorn, and up to 2x faster than Puma and Torquebox.
Software Firms Scramble to Jump Into Containers #docker – A tiny company with little revenue to speak of has pushed the mighty Microsoft Corp. to up its game in computer operating software. The maker of Windows, the software that undergirds most personal computers as well as corporate data centers, announced a p
JavaScript Dominates GitHub, Language Study Shows – The real reason? JS frameworks. – Developer Asad Dhamani took a look at the code hosting service and found that JavaScript is still a top language choice, no matter how he crunched the numbers.
Google To Developers: Here’s How To Score Big On Google Play #android #appstore – Android developers, you too can have break-out success in Google Play—and Google itself wants to show you the way. The creator of the mobile software and its related app store has put together a game plan to help app makers make it big using its resources.
Dynamic Layouts in Swift #ios #swift – In Swift we use the Objective-C UIKit framework to layout components on the screen, using Storyboard, Constraints etc. In this article we will explore the possibilities of creating layouts without using Storyboards and Constraints, in Swift.
Materialize – A modern responsive front-end framework based on Material Design – Created and designed by Google, Material Design is a design language that combines the classic principles of successful design along with innovation and technology. Google's goal is to develop a system of design that allows for a unified user experience across all their products on any platform.
12 great Lollipop APIs every Android 5.0 developer will love #android #lollipop – Android 5.0 Lollipop is best known for the Material Design look and feel, and it includes an expanded UI toolkit that developers can use to add the illusion of 3D with real-time shadows, smooth animated activity transitions, and scalable vector “drawables.
Joyent open-sources its core technology – Cloud pioneer Joyent throws down the gauntlet to the bloated world of OpenStack with fresh open source releases
Getting Started with Java Development on Docker – With this article I try to fill this gap. It gets you started with Docker and Java with minimal overhead and upfront knowledge.

Links for October 29th through November 7th

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Vinny

Java SE 8 added a new class to handle nullability – Optional – An useful guide to using the new Optional class the way it was meant to when it was introduced into the language. Like everything else, there’s a good way to use it, and then there’s all the other ways.
Webinar: Security for Microservices with Spring and OAuth2 – Security for Microservices with Spring and OAuth2 OAuth2 is a lightweight security protocol that is well-suited for use with HTTP, the protocol at the heart of many modern architectures.
Review: Microsoft Office, Now Free on Mobile, Is Still Out of Sync Online – WSJ – Full-featured Word, Excel and PowerPoint finally on the devices we spend more and more time using—and free? If it was 2011, that would be incredible news.
But at the end of 2014, trying out these new apps on a phone and tablet just underscores how out of sync the king of productivity software has become with the way we use the Internet
How Google Will Use Firebase to Supercharge Its Cloud Computing #firebase #realtime – With Amazon, Google, and Microsoft all going after this massive market in a big way, cloud services have become something of a commodity. But Firebase gives Google a service that’s unique—at least for the time being. As Leonardo puts it: “There’s nothing e
Beyond Thread Pools: Java Concurrency is Not as Bad as You Think – Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Akka, Java 8 streams and Quasar: The classic use cases to the newest concurrency approaches for Java developers
Introducing Dynomite – Making Non-Distributed Databases, Distributed – The Cloud Database Engineering team at Netflix is always looking for ways to shave off milliseconds from an application’s database response time, while maintaining our goal of local high-availability and multi-datacenter high-availability. With that goal in mind, we created Dynomite.
Swagger 2.0 – Annotate your REST services code to automate documentation creation – Swagger is a simple yet powerful representation of your RESTful API. With the largest ecosystem of API tooling on the planet, thousands of developers are supporting Swagger in almost every modern programming language and deployment environment.
The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate – A Foundation For Building High-Quality WordPress Plugins – A standardized, organized, object-oriented foundation for building WordPress plugins.
Java 8: A quick overview over the good parts – Writing Java has never been so fun – Writing Java has never been so fun
GapDebug – Simplify Your Mobile Debugging Experience – GapDebug is a comprehensive mobile debugging tool that bridges the gap left by other debugging options. Operating on both the Windows and Mac platforms, GapDebug allows debugging of hybrid mobile apps, such as PhoneGap and Cordova, on modern iOS and Androi
AppCode joins Swift club with 3.1 EAP #jetbrains #appcode – This summer, soon after the Apple event, we announced basic editing and highlighting for Swift code. Since then we’ve implemented resolve in Swift code and built a couple of useful features on top of that. So, let’s have a look at what’s already available
RoboVM beckons Java 8 programmers to iOS – RoboVM lets developers use lambdas and defaults, and it provides full access to the hardware and native iOS APIs

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