Monthly Archives: June 2015

Links for June 14th through June 21st

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Vinny

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• A CIO’s DevOps approach to resolving the agility-stability paradox via @robcrussell – Speed versus stability is a paradox for IT. Pushing for both at the same time seems contradictory, but the IT organization must strive to achieve this goal if the enterprise is ultimately to become more antifragile—that is, less vulnerable to catastrophe.
• Apple Watch: My most personal review ever – So, while every reporter in the world rushed to get their review of the Apple Watch posted online, I sat and looked at my Apple Watch. I touched it, played with the interface, and I even talked to it.
• Moment.js – Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in JavaScript. – Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in JavaScript.
• Apple has published a great free learn to code course for Swift on GitHub for iOS App Development – TL;DR: Apple has apparently, via some sort of collaboration with a university professor, published last week — during WWDC — a really solid-looking learn-to-code curriculum for Swift that is kind of on iTunes U but that is really on GitHub.
• Dokker.js creates professional Javascript code documentation – Dokker.js creates professional Javascript code documentations.
• watchOS 2.0 tl;dr – Apple announced a major update to watchOS 2 today that will be available with iOS 9 this fall. We've gone through the official Apple documentation, all of the headers and code provided in Xcode 7, and summarized everything for you so you can quickly skim w
• A free tool to monitor & implement DMARC – DMARC is a standard that prevents spammers from using your domain to send email without your permission — also known as spoofing
• Bootcards – Cards-based UI built with Bootstrap – A cards-based UI with dual-pane capability for mobile and desktop, built on top of Bootstrap
• VMware Photon: Minimal Linux Container Host – Photon is a technology preview of a minimal Linux container host. It is designed to have a small footprint and boot extremely quickly on VMware platforms.
• Flight – An event-driven web framework, from Twitter – Flight is a lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework that maps behavior to DOM nodes. Twitter uses it for their web applications. By way of example, we've included a simple email client demo (browse the source) built over the Flight framework. There's also a flight implementation over on the todoMVC site (source), courtesy of @mkuklis

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Links for June 9th through June 13th

Posted on June 13, 2015 by Vinny

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• Browsersync – Time-saving synchronised browser testing – Browsersync makes your tweaking and testing faster by synchronising file changes and interactions across multiple devices. It’s wicked-fast and totally free.
• Find the Android phone for you – With many Android phones to choose from, here's a great place to start.
  Answer three or more quick questions, and we'll suggest phones just for you.
• Changes to the Swift Standard Library in 2.0 beta 1 #wwdc2015 #swiftlang – The standard library has some sparkly new online documentation. And as part of the WWDC sample code, there’s a playground all about the Swift standard library that is worth checking out. Also it looks like the developer forums for Swift no longer require a developer login to read either, if you want to take a look without registering.
• Top 10 things you need to know from WWDC 2015 as an iOS developer – If you don’t have time to watch the all the WWDC 2015 videos to find out what’s happening with Xcode 7, Swift 2.0, and iOS 9, read on for a quick summary of what you – as an iOS developer – need to know from WWDC this year.
• Java Garbage Collection handbook – Plumbr – Java Garbage Collection handbook
• Java Micro Frameworks: The New Trend You Can’t Ignore – Today, I’m taking a look at three of the more popular Java micro frameworks available: Ninja Framework, Spark, and Jodd.
• Why I stopped using Hashmaps for caches and switched to Guava Cache – In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at the Guava Cache implementation – basic usage, eviction policies, refreshing the cache and some interesting bulk operat
• A quick introduction to Docker – This is the source for the Docker Jumpstart, a short guide by Andrew Odewahn from O'Reilly Media to help you get up and running with Docker. Its table of contents is:
• Paw – The ultimate REST client for Mac – Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.
• iCloud for Developers #CloudKit – Keep your apps connected and up to date across iOS, OS X, and now on the web with CloudKit JS. With free public storage up to 1PB, it's never been easier to build and grow your apps using CloudKit.

Links for May 29th through June 4th

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Vinny

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• SQL Is Alive And Well – In fact, it may be the future of big data #sql #bigdata #memsql –  A former Facebook engineer, Frenkiel believes the future of databases is distributed—and that SQL, a specialized programming language familiar to many database engineers but discarded by many big-data initiatives, has a big role to play.
• Kubernetes – The Future of Deployment #docker #kubernetes – Enter Kubernetes, which provides these missing pieces and uses to Docker to enable a much more efficient way of deploying and running applications.
• MonolithFirst – Did all successful microservices start as a monolith that got too big and was broken up? – Did all successful microservices start as a monolith that got too big and was broken up
• OkHttp – An HTTP & SPDY client for Android and Java applications – An HTTP & SPDY client for Android and Java applications
• wealthbot.io – open source wealth management platform. Helping investment advisors profitably serve the mass affluent. – Wealthbot.io makes it easy to launch a Wealth Management Platform. Build and customize your very own version of a robo-advisor.
• The next generation of spreadsheets will be a database – Flexibility and ease of use have made the spreadsheet the popular but unfortunate choice for makeshift databases; we can do better
• How Google ATAP’s Wacky Ideas Could Change The Way We Use Gadgets – ReadWrite –
• How generics in Swift can lead to safer, cleaner code | Roadfire Software – In this article, we’ll look at why you’d want to use generics in classes, structs, or enums you define, and hopefully by the end you’ll have a grasp on what’s happening between those pointy brackets
• Google’s Polymer 1.0 brings reuse and better branding to Web development – Google’s Polymer 1.0 library promises to tame Web development awash in HTML soup, and make it easier for developers to create feature-laden apps and websites.
• 27 iOS open source libraries to skyrocket your development – So, as I’m a big fan of curation, here I’ve selected favorites from my favorites iOS open source libraries. Order of these projects is totally random, all of them are simply awesome.