Monthly Archives: August 2015

Links for August 21st through August 31st

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Vinny

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• Latest Jackson integration improvements in Spring #json – Spring Jackson support has been improved lately to be more flexible and powerful. This blog post gives you an update about the most useful Jackson related features available in Spring Framework 4.x and Spring Boot.
• Facebook engineers: Going mobile-first is not as easy as it looks – Going mobile-first is not as easy as making such a declaration to the world. It requires a lot of organizational changes (and money), according to Facebook engineers.
• Bootstrap a Web Application with Spring 4 – The tutorial illustrates how to Bootstrap a Web Application with Spring and also discusses how to make the jump from XML to Java without having to completely migrate the entire XML configuration.
• Supercharging Your Android Testing With JUnit 4 and Espresso 2 by @designatednerd – Testing almost always helps catching bugs and write better code, but it can be a huge pain without a proper framework and setup. At the Bay Area Android Dev Group meeting, Ellen Shapiro explains how to super-charge your Android testing, including UI testing, with JUnit 4 and Espresso 2. She demonstrates both technologies, providing tips and best practices to use testing painlessly in your projects.
• Why I want Swift to be your first language – In preparation for an upper level class that I’m teaching this semester, I spent the summer writing my first app entirely in Swift. (It’s 7 Second Diet, a meal-tracking app that’s not a pain in the tuchus to use.) After spending some quality time with Swif
• What’s New in AppCode 3.2 – AppCode 3.2 brings you many sweet features to make your Swift development more productive and pleasant, including code generation and navigation, documentation, and a new debugger. A range of general enhancements in this update also improves your overall d
• Alan Adler, inventor of the AeroPress coffee maker, tells the stories behind his famous inventions – Alan Adler, inventor of the Aerobie Flying Disc and the AeroPress coffee maker, tells the stories behind his famous inventions. Part of an ongoing series of inventor portraits by David Friedman.
• How to build your own Slack integration #slack – Over the past year, Slack has changed the way businesses communicate. With a very well documented and intuitive API, Slack gives developers the ability to easily create custom integrations to get data out of or into Slack.
• Mike Kavis on the State of DevOps via @duhaas #devops – Puppet Labs has published its annual State of DevOps report, and it is loaded with interesting information as always. Last year’s report brought home the point that DevOps was becoming widely accepted in the enterprise. This year’s report further validates that point and provides us with some interesting insights from surveying a wide variety of companies in different phases of their DevOps journey.
• Hibernate ORM 5.0 has gone Final! – Hibernate ORM 5.0 has gone Final!

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Links for August 8th through August 20th

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Vinny

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• Test versions of IE from 6 through 11 and Microsoft Edge using VMs you download and manage locally – Test versions of IE from 6 through 11 and Microsoft Edge using virtual machines you download and manage locally
• The Evolution of Asynchronous JavaScript | RisingStack – Let's take a look back and see how asynchronous JavaScript evolved over the years.
• GitLab Mattermost, an open source on-premises Slack alternative from @gitlab @robcrussell – GitLab Mattermost, an open source on-premises Slack alternative
• Our Mobile, Networked World Is Ushering in a New Victorian Age #innovation – If you think the world has been transformed by technology, we're just getting started.
• Falcor: One Model Everywhere – A JavaScript library for efficient data fetching – Falcor lets you represent all your remote data sources as a single domain model via a virtual JSON graph. You code the same way no matter where the data is, whether in memory on the client or over the network on the server.
• The New York Times built a Slack bot to help decide which stories to post to social media » Nieman Journalism Lab – The bot, named Blossom, helps predict how stories will do on social and also suggests which stories editors should promote.
• RequestBin — Collect, inspect and debug HTTP requests and webhooks – RequestBin gives you a URL that will collect requests made to it and let you inspect them in a human-friendly way. Use RequestBin to see what your HTTP client is sending or to inspect and debug webhook requests.
• A collection of awesome software, libraries, documents, books, resources and cools stuffs about security. – A collection of awesome software, libraries, documents, books, resources and cools stuffs about security.
• TLDR; What are your favorite resources for how to build a secure webapp? #security – TLDR; What are your favorite resources for how to build a secure webapp?
• How Dropbox Sources, Scales and Ships Its Best Product Ideas – Ultimately, every idea is an investment. “Idea. Hypothesis. Prototype. Product. Make it very clear which metrics and results you plan to see at each stage of an idea’s growth. Set expectations so it’s clear to everyone which ‘investments’ receive ‘funding’ and why

Links for July 29th through August 7th

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Vinny

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• Windows Bridge for iOS: Let’s open this up – Windows Bridge for iOS (also referred to as WinObjC) is a Microsoft open source project that provides an Objective-C development environment for Visual Studio/Windows. In addition, WinObjC provides support for iOS API compatibility.
• Strategy, not technology, drives digital transformation #podcast #Collaboration – What’s the most important driver of organizational digital maturity—social, mobile, analytics, or cloud? None of the above, according to the latest MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte digital business study.
• Fig: Java elegant supplement – Java 8 delivered lambda expressions, but without the enhancement of basic libraries like List, Map, String, which makes lambda expression still not delightful. Borrowered from Ruby basic library, Fig intends to supply the missing.
• Android Studio Data Binding Guide #Android #Developers – This document explains how to use the Data Binding Library to write declarative layouts and minimize the glue code necessary to bind your application logic and layouts.
• greenDAO – Android ORM for SQLite #mobile #android #sqllite – greenDAO is a light & fast ORM solution that maps objects to SQLite databases.
• Reactive getters, powered by RxJava and ListenableFuture – DurianRx: Reactive getters, unifies RxJava's Observable with Guava's ListenableFuture.
• Mycli is a command line interface for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona with auto-completion and syntax highlighting. – Mycli is a command line interface for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona with auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
• Coming Soon – AWS Device Farm Support for iOS Apps #testing – I am happy to give you a heads-up that you will soon be able to test your apps on Apple phones and tablets! We plan to launch support for iOS on August 4, 2015 with support for the following test automation frameworks:
• Mobile-First Development in the Cloud #firebase #restful – As users move mobile-first and increasingly mobile-only, Google aims to equip developers with solutions to address their unique challenges on mobile: from fully managed services where developers can focus exclusively on their app’s front-end user experience, to platform and infrastructure-as-a-service that give developers as much control as they need for their projects.
• Unleash the power of Kiosk Apps #Chromeboxes #google – With Single App kiosk mode, developers can build powerful Kiosk apps that convert Chromeboxes into purpose built devices. The use cases are phenomenal from Digital Signage in Airports and Restaurants to ATM machines in Banks.