Monthly Archives: October 2015

Links for October 14th through October 26th

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Vinny

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• Front-end Developer Handbook – This is a guide that anyone could use to learn about the practice of front-end development. It broadly outlines and discusses the practice of front-end engineering: how to learn it and what tools are used when practicing it.
• fastlane – iOS Automation for Continuous Delivery – fastlane lets you define and run your deployment pipelines for different environments. It helps you unify your app’s release process and automate the whole process. fastlane connects all fastlane tools and third party tools, like CocoaPods and Gradle.
• Google Launches a Developer Boot Camp, Promising Jobs for Graduates #android – The 12-week course, held at computer programming school General Assembly, plans to put newly minted Android developers in positions at VICE Media and Karma.
• Ensuring Cloud Native Success: The Greenfield Journey webinar #pivotal – Join us for the first installment of this 3 part webinar session: The Greenfield Journey – when you're starting with a “blank screen,“ how can you make sure you're successful enough to be given permission to work on the next project? Unfettered by existing
• The Staggering Impact of IT Systems Gone Wrong – IEEE Spectrum – Explore the many ways in which IT failures have squandered money, wasted time, and generally disrupted people’s lives
• Docker Acquires Tutum To Help IT Teams Deploy and Manage Production Apps – Today we’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Tutum, a cloud service used by developers and sysadmins to deploy and manage Docker applications
• iOS Cookies | A hand curated collection of iOS libraries written in Swift – iOS Cookies are collection of hand curated iOS open-source libraries written in Swift.
• A brief introduction to a cleaner Android architecture: The MVP pattern – One of the most common pattern that the community of Android developers has been using for a while and that has got lot of attention is the Model View Presenter (MVP) pattern and we will focus on it on this post.
• Why Companies Have Stopped Outsourcing IT – The Experts – WSJ – The rise of digitization, big data analytics and cognitive technologies has made IT strategic again. And it is often difficult to get innovative, differentiated outcomes when you turn IT over to someone else.
• Katharsis – Elegant and powerful HATEOAS for Java based on JSON:API standard – The Katharsis library adds an additional layer on top of RESTful endpoint to provide easy HATEOAS support for Java by implementing JSON:API standard.

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Links for October 6th through October 14th

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Vinny

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• Full interview: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on Marketplace.org – Marketplace Tech Host Ben Johnson talked with Stewart Butterfield, the CEO and cofounder of Slack about how the workplace communication tool has changed as it's experienced precipitous growth, adoption by large workplaces, and a skyrocketing valuation.
• SAP’s Cloud for Analytics enters crowded field – SAP launches Cloud for Analytics in a bid to be the layer that analyzes data stored around the enterprise.
• The Web Authentication Arms Race – A Tale of Two Security Experts – Web authentication systems have evolved over the past ten years to counter a growing variety of threats. This post will present a fictional arms race between a web application developer and an attacker, showing how different threats can be countered with t
• From On-Premise to Cloud, Monolithic to Microservices, ETL to Spark Streaming, EMC/NetApp to AWS / OpenStack, and VMs to VMs + Containers – From On-Premise to Cloud, Monolithic to Microservices, ETL to Spark Streaming, EMC/NetApp to AWS / OpenStack, and VMs to VMs + Containers
• Innovate or Die: The Rise of Microservices – Software has emerged as the critical differentiator in every industry, from financial services to fashion, as “technology first” startups disrupt global markets. To stay alive, some of the biggest global enterprises we know are making a radical change in how they build and deliver software. The new model is called microservices, an approach where large applications are broken down into small, loosely coupled and composable autonomous pieces.
• When Schools Overlook Introverts: Why Quiet Time is Important for the Learning Process – As the focus on group work and collaboration increases, classrooms are neglecting the needs of students who work better in quiet settings.
• Werner’s Six Laws of Architecture #reInvent – Werner Vogels started his keynote today talking at length about Cloud Architecture, announcing a new architecture whitepaper called the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and then expanded on the Six Laws of Architecture he observes in cloud applications
• AWS re:Invent 2015 – Keynote Summary – The annual flurry of announcements by Andy Jassy in Las Vegas provided the expected amount of excitement and disappointment (depending on whether you still had a business model at the end of it)
• Google unveiled its new plan to speed up the mobile web today — Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP – Google unveiled its new plan to speed up the mobile web today — Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP — and it’s the latest attempt by a technology company to deal with the problem of the slow mobile web
• AWS WAF – a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits – AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources

Links for September 28th through October 5th

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Vinny

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• React May Have Just Ended The Native Vs. Web Debate – ReadWrite – React Native changed one iOS developer's mind about web development. Will it change yours?
• New Azure Container Service to bring together Mesos, Docker and Azure cloud – Microsoft's new Azure Container Service will be available to testers before year-end. That's just one of a handful of Azure-related announcements happening as part of AzureCon.
• Hire a Top Performer Every Time with These Interview Questions @robcrussell – The combination of hard and soft skills that drive business impact are the best indicator of success.
• Nomad – A Distributed, Highly Available, Datacenter-Aware Scheduler – Easily deploy applications at any scale – A Distributed, Highly Available, Datacenter-Aware Scheduler
• Otto – The Successor to Vagrant #devops – Otto is the single solution to develop and deploy any application, with first class support for microservices. It is the most powerful tool we've built yet.
• The future of software development according to @Grady_Booch – Much has changed in software development since that seminal work, and not surprisingly, Booch has changed along with them and has a lot of opinions about the state of things today.
• Dropbox: the first dead decacorn #valuation – To me, Slack feels like the first truly internet and mobile-native productivity platform – especially as it expands beyond messaging and into workflow automation, helper bots, and who knows what else. Dropbox might be the pinnacle of file management, but S
• Which iOS Content Blocker is the Fastest? #ios9 – This is part one in a four part series on content blockers in iOS 9.
• A Swift Introduction to Realm, with Tim Oliver – Tim Oliver, from the Cocoa team at Realm, presents a Swift introduction to Realm! He draws comparisons between Realm and other solutions (iOS and Mac), provides an introduction to Realm, and runs through some quick code examples in Swift.
• Kotlin: A New Hope in a Java 6 Wasteland – In this talk from Droidcon NYC 2015, Michael Pardo introduces Kotlin: a statically typed JVM language backed by JetBrains. With features like lambdas, class extensions, and null-safety, it aims to be concise, expressive, and highly interoperable — a powerful addition to your Android tool belt.