Monthly Archives: February 2015

Links for February 18th through February 25th

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Vinny

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• Core Data Cheat Sheet for Swift iOS Developers – This cheat sheet is a handy reference to keep you productive with Core Data and Swift. The code snippets below are here to help jog your memory when it’s been a while since you’ve worked in Core Data. They could also be helpful for newcomers to iOS development, Core Data, and Swift.
• Origami – Design Prototyping app created by Facebook – Origami is a free tool for designing modern user interfaces.
• SwiftMoment – A time and calendar manipulation library for iOS 8+ written in Swift – This framework is inspired by Moment.js. Its objectives are to simplify the manipulation and readability of date and interval values, help when parsing dates from various string representations, simplifying the formatting of date information into strings
• Software Architect – A Role, Not a Job – A product development organizational structure where software architects work on a team separate from the development team can be a recipe for dysfunction, reduced quality, and poor morale.
• LoganSquare – Screaming fast JSON parsing and serialization library for Android – The fastest JSON parsing and serializing library available for Android. Based on Jackson's streaming API, LoganSquare is able to consistently outperform GSON and Jackson's Databind library by 400% or more
• ReactiveCocoa and MVVM, an Introduction #mvc #mvvm #functional – As a whole, iOS developers have come to the conclusion they need to slim down their view controllers, and further separate concerns; but how?
• Fragmented – An Android Developer Podcast – The Fragmented Podcast is a podcast for Android Developers hosted by Donn Felker and Kaushik Gopal. Our goal is to help you become a better Android Developer. We chat about topics such as Testing, Dependency Injection, Android Patterns and Practices, useful libraries and much more
• WebSockets the UNIX way – Full duplex messaging between web browsers and servers – websocketd is the WebSocket daemon and It takes care of handling the WebSocket connections, launching your programs to handle the WebSockets, and passing messages between programs and web-browser. It's like CGI, twenty years later, for WebSockets
• Stetho: A new debugging platform for Android #android #debugging – Facebook is open-sourcing a powerful new debugging platform for Android called Stetho. With it, developers can unlock much richer and more convenient access to data. And the best part: We use Chrome Developer Tools to serve the UI!
• A Clean Cut Guide to Docker for Java Developers – In this post we looked at how to get started with Docker containers to enable a portable development environment for Java projects. This might reduce the install complexity for a new project without sacrificing the goods or performance that your usual envi

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Links for February 11th through February 18th

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Vinny

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• A Microscope on Microservices #netflix #architecture – In this post we’ll discuss tools that the Cloud Performance and Reliability team have been developing, which are used together like a microscope switching between different magnifications as needed.
• Vendor-agnostic, multi-channel Routing API for SMS, Voice, CRM, Chat and more – The power of contact center routing made available for orchestrating interactions within CRM, Support workflows and IoT.
• Pivotal open sources its Hadoop and Greenplum tech, and then some #hadoop #bigdata – Pivotal, the cloud computing and big data company that spun out from EMC and VMware in 2013, is open sourcing its entire portfolio of big data technologies and is teaming up with Hortonworks, IBM, GE, and several other companies on a Hadoop effort called the Open Data Platform.
• Microsoft embraces Python, Linux in new big data tools #bigdata – Continuing its quest to make Microsoft Azure comfy for the non-Windows world, Microsoft just launched a preview of its Hadoop-based cloud tool (HDInsight) that runs on Linux. It’s also making its Azure ML machine learning service widely available now with
• Getting started with React – React is an insanely powerful framework by the amazing developers over at Facebook. Implementing a virtual DOM, it allows us to render components super fast whilst removing any unnecessary overhead from DOM operations.
• Beginners guide to using Mockito and PowerMockito to unit test Java code – John Mullins – I stumbled across Mockito and PowerMockito and was very happy with the results.
• How is Docker used with Microservices? – Quora – Actually there are many ways you could use #docker for your microservices such as fast deployments, feature variadic services, fail-overs, side-by-side deployments, blue/green deployments etc. The usage kinda depends on the architecture we are trying to co
• Java Doesn’t Suck – Rockin’ the JVM – In this post, I’ll use James Ward’s blog post as a backdrop to explain how Spring helps developers rock the JVM (using Java) while tackling each of the issues James outlined.
• Ignore the Hype: 5 Docker Misconceptions Java Developers Should Consider #docker – Docker is a very interesting technology, with several real and valid use cases. And as a young technology, there is still plenty of time and potential for addressing several of the missing features and bugs. But boy, is there a lot of hype right now. Hype does not automatically equal success of course –
• NIO.2 Cookbook – three recipes for copying, deleting, and moving files. #java #nio2 – Oracle's Java 7 release introduced NIO.2, which extends its NIO (New I/O) framework with new capabilities (e.g., the ability to work with symbolic/soft links and hard links). This post launches a three-part series in which I present a cookbook of recipes f
• Better application events in Spring Framework 4.2 – Application events are available since the very beginning of the Spring framework as a mean for loosely coupled components to exchange information

Links for February 1st through February 9th

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Vinny

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• Silver – a native Swift compiler for the .NET CLR, Java/Android JVM & the Cocoa runtime #swiftlang – Silver is a truly native Swift compiler for the .NET CLR, the Java/Android JVM and the Cocoa runtime.
• Jolie Programming Language – The first language for Microservices – Jolie crystallises the programming concepts of microservices as native language features: the basic building blocks of software are not objects or functions, but rather services that can always be relocated and replicated as needed. Distribution and reusab
• JUniversal – Native, cross platform, mobile apps in Java #java #android #mobile – Simply put, I wanted a cross platform language & toolset that would be comfortable to typical mobile devs who today build for Android in Java and iOS in Objective-C or Swift. That meant supporting something they already use. And of those three languages, J
• JUniversal: A new, Java-based approach to cross-platform – Several options have been created to address this need, including Xamarin and Cordova. I’d like to specifically mention JUniversal as another alternative, which allows you to write shared, cross platform code in Java.
• Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Makes Peace With Silicon Valley – WSJ – CEO Has Fostered New Willingness to Learn From and Work With Outsiders; ‘Case Study in Corporate Reinvention’
• Spring Security for a REST API #REST #Security – This tutorial shows how to Secure a REST Service using Spring and Spring Security 3.1 with Java based configuration. The article will focus on how to set up the Security Configuration specifically for the REST API using a Login and Cookie approach.
• Spring 4 and Java 8 – If you are using Java 8 you will be able to make use of lambda expressions to write cleaner more compact code anywhere there is a functional interface. Since Spring uses a lot of functional interfaces there are a lot opportunities for using lambda expressi
• 10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman: What I Learned. Great article by @bencasnocha – 10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman: What I Learned. Great article by @bencasnocha
• LMDB JNI provide a Java API to LMDB which is an ultra-fast, ultra-compact key-value embedded data store – LMDB JNI provide a Java API to LMDB which is an ultra-fast, ultra-compact key-value embedded data store developed by Symas for the OpenLDAP Project. It uses memory-mapped files, so it has the read performance of a pure in-memory database while still offeri
• Developing HTML5 Hybrid Applications – Do’s and Don’ts To Be Considered – If you have decided to begin developing HTML5 hybrid applications, you should consider some Do’s and Don’ts in order to develop a right application for multiple platform.