July | 2015 | Vinny Carpenter’s blog

Why Docker is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production – In light of DockerCon 2015’s “Docker in Production” theme I’d like to discuss publicly the challenges Docker has yet to overcome to see wide adoption for the production use case.
Creating Unique, High Performance Interfaces With UICollectionView, with @neror – Many iOS developers think of UICollectionView as UITableView with a grid. But with a little math and a lot of creativity, UICollectionView can be used to render timelines, charts and graphs, parallax scrolling landscapes and more. Through working examples,
Cocoa Touch Best Practices – WWDC 2015 – Videos – Apple Developer – Small improvements can make a big impact on your iOS app's performance and launch time. Learn best practices to optimize your UIKit-based applications. See how to future-proof your app for what may be next, and walk through numerous real world examples for
Swift 2 Introduction: A Beginner’s Guide – Swift 2 was announced at WWDC 2015. Let's take a quick look at the update and see what's new.
A simple keyframe-based animation framework for iOS, written in Swift. Perfect for scrolling app intros. – RazzleDazzle is a simple AutoLayout-friendly keyframe animation framework for iOS, written in Swift. Perfect for scrolling app intros.
Wireframing Made Easy with Ext JS Stencils #wireframe #sencha #extjs6 – We’re excited to announce the release of Ext JS Stencils, a complete UI asset kit for Adobe Illustrator. With the recent release of Sencha Ext JS 6, we wanted to include assets that help designers easily mock up applications. Ext JS Stencils contains all of the components and styles used within the Ext JS classic toolkit. Stencils can be used in a product development workflow to help designers communicate with developers and other stakeholders
Microservices with Spring – example of setting up a microservices system using Spring, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. – A simple example of setting up a microservices system using Spring, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.
SwiftyDropbox, a Swift SDK for integrating with the Dropbox API v2 SDK talk video and sample app – A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at the Twilio Signal conference about our new SwiftyDropbox SDK.
How iOS 9’s Safari View Controller could completely change your app’s onboarding experience – I’m going to show you how iOS 9's Safari View Controllers might make this way easier, but first let’s take a look at what the current tools by Apple
Things to Know When Making a Web Application in 2015 – This checklist isn't in any way exhaustive, and if you're an experienced developer I doubt there's anything here that'll surprise you, but I hope it'll prove helpful to those whom might otherwise have missed something.

Introduction to Microservices | NGINX – This blog post is the first in a 7-part series about designing, building, and deploying microservices. You will learn about the approach and how it compares to the more traditional Monolithic architecture pattern. This series will describe the various elem
Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends #backendasaservice – Today we are introducing the new Amazon API Gateway. This new pay-as-you-go service allows you to quickly and easily build and run application backends that are robust, and scalable. Instead of worrying about the infrastructure, you can focus on your servi
AWS CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application updates – AWS CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application updates. CodePipeline builds, tests, and deploys your code every time there is a code change, based on the release process models you define.
AWS Device Farm – Test your Android app on real devices in the AWS Cloud – Improve the quality of your Android and Fire OS apps by testing them against real smartphones and tablets in the AWS Cloud
How Do We Explain the Unreasonable Effectiveness of IT? – How Do We Explain The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of IT?
Google releases Material Design Lite, a web framework for making Material Design-style websites – The new framework, called Material Design Lite (MDL), includes Material Design-style components – like buttons, checkboxes, input fields, custom typography, and more – as well as a responsive grid and breakpoints
Cycle.js – A fully reactive JavaScript framework for Human-Computer Interaction – A fully reactive JavaScript framework for Human-Computer Interaction
10 myths about enterprise adoption of Docker #docker – In a market that’s been dominated by open source and developer-driven initiatives, separating the hype from reality has been difficult. The showcase early adopters such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix have set an idealized vision that is far from the raw reality of the enterprise. This vision has been further emboldened by the promise of a developer-defined, microservice-dominated future
iOS 9 and Safari View Controller: The Future of Web Views #mobile – With Safari View Controller, Apple is freeing many developers from the burden of writing browser components for their apps.
You’re Using PhoneGap For All The Wrong Reasons – PhoneGap and Xamarin are being used to save time and money and not necessarily to improve their users' experience.
Docker and CoreOS unite to start the Open Container Project and standardize runtime, image format | VentureBeat | Dev | by Jordan Novet – Docker and CoreOS today are jointly announcing that they’re working with several major tech companies on a new Linux Foundation initiative called the Open Container Project. The idea is for everyone — users and vendors — to agree on a standard container runtime and

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