Monthly Archives: January 2016

Links for January 20th through January 25th

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Vinny

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• 4 Dos and Don’ts When Using the Cloud to Experiment @awscloud #aws – Here are four things to consider and four things to avoid when building a culture of experimentation in your organization.
• sdkman – The Software Development Kit Manager – SDKMAN! is a tool for managing parallel versions of multiple Software Development Kits on most Unix based systems. It provides a convenient Command Line Interface (CLI) and API for installing, switching, removing and listing Candidates.
• Zeppelin – A web-based notebook that enables interactive data analytics. – You can make beautiful data-driven, interactive and collaborative documents with SQL, Scala and more.
• Twitter Mobile app playbook: lessons learned in moving from ideation to product – Our experience building Cannonball made it so much easier to build Furni the following year. We thought we’d organize what we’ve learned into a chronological playbook that you can use as a guide when you build apps. Over the coming weeks, watch for our ser
• Style guide & coding conventions for Swift projects – Style guide & coding conventions for Swift projects
• 9 things every React.js beginner should know – so I thought it would be a good idea to write some of them up here to share more broadly. These are all either things that I wish I'd known when I started out, or things that really helped me 'get' React.
• T. Rowe Price marked down its Dropbox stake by 51% ; MongoDB, 44%; Evernote, 20% #unicorns – According to SEC filings, mutual fund manager T. Rowe Price marked down its Dropbox stake by 51% ; MongoDB, 44%; Evernote, 20%
• jooby: A micro web framework for Java – JOOBY a scalable, fast and modular micro web framework for Java.
• 120 Uses for Your Empty Data Center #aws #humor – It is big. It is cold. It is secure. And now it is empty, because you have gone all-in to the AWS Cloud. So, what do you do with your data center? Once the pride and joy of your IT staff, it is now a stark, expensive reminder that the world has changed.
• Nativefier – Wrap any web page natively without even thinking, across Windows, OSX and Linux – Wrap any web page natively without even thinking, across Windows, OSX and Linux

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Links for January 11th through January 19th

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Vinny

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• Autopwn every Android device on your network using BetterCap and the “addJavascriptInterface” vulnerability – Recently I've been playing with Android's WebView based vulnerabilities, focusing on how to exploit them using a MITM attack.
  One of the most interesting ones is the addJavascriptInterface vulnerability ( CVE-2012-6636 ) which affects every device running
• Launching an Apple TV App: What we’ve Learned so Far – Server Density Blog – To get a better understanding of this new platform, we decided to invest a few weeks and develop a Server Density Apple TV app. Here is what we’ve learned.
• How to Improve Cybersecurity? Just Eliminate the Human Factor – WSJ – As the toll of data breaches and hacks mounts, and the specter of a “cyber Pearl Harbor” looms, it’s worth asking: how do we defend against a breach not of our computers, but our minds?
• Creolabs: Native App Design and Development Reinvented – Creo is a modern design tool for Mac which combines design and development. Build native mobile apps with unprecedented power and ease of use.
• Microsoft’s iOS bridge to Windows 10 is moving forward | ZDNet – Microsoft is readying an analyzer to help iOS developers check compatibility of their apps with the Windows iOS bridge toolkit.
• Create complex web apps with ease with Imba – Imba is a new programming language for the web that compiles to highly performant and readable JavaScript. It has language level support for defining, extending, subclassing, instantiating and rendering dom nodes. For a semi-complex application like TodoMV
• A Beginner’s Guide to Scaling to 11 Million+ Users on Amazon’s AWS – How do you scale a system from one user to more than 11 million users? Joel Williams, Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect, gives an excellent talk on just that subject: AWS re:Invent 2015 Scaling Up to Your First 10 Million Users.
• Why We Hire Great Developers, Not Great Mobile Developers – Mobile developers are in short supply, but if you have the right team put together you can quickly get web and backend developers up to speed and shipping scalable mobile apps.
• 2016 Google Tracker: Everything Google is working on for the new year – It's that time of the year again—welcome to the Google Tracker! This is a bi-annual series where we recap every ongoing project (that we know about, at least) inside of Google's sprawling empire.
• Oracle sinks its claws into Android #java #android – A commit appeared in the Android code base that indicates that Google is abandoning its own re-implementation of Java in favor of Oracle’s original Java implementation. I’ll try to explain why I think this is a huge change and will have far-reaching implic
• Apple in 2015: The Six Colors report card – 2015 is in the books. As this is a site with Apple as a primary focus, I thought it might be worthwhile to ask a bunch of my colleagues who pay attention to Apple and related markets to take a moment and reflect on Apple’s performance in the past year.

Links for December 16th through January 8th

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Vinny

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• Filestack – Upload or ingest images, documents and files of any type. – Ingest unlimited files via our easy-to-use API. Or, integrate the original file picker with two lines of code and allow users to upload files from 20+ cloud sources.
• How to Build a Great Looking Universal App with Ext JS – Part 1 | – In this article, I’ve described what an Ext JS 6 universal app is, what I like about the universal app approach, and why I converted my app. In Part 2, I’ll show you exactly how I converted my music app to a universal app.
• How to Upgrade a Sencha Touch App to Ext JS 6 Modern Toolkit – Part 1 – In this tutorial, I will show you how you can upgrade your app, and why you should consider taking this step.
• Jasper is an open source platform for developing always-on, voice-controlled applications – Jasper is an open source platform for developing always-on, voice-controlled applications
• The safe simple & easy way to build native iOS apps in Java – ParparVM is the VM developed by Codename One to replace the defunct XMLVM with which it was originally built.
• Oracle acquires StackEngine, plots new cloud campus in Austin #docker – Oracle acquired StackEngine, a startup with a container operations platform for DevOps based in Austin, Texas.
• Google Plans New, Smarter Messaging App w/ a chatbot that will scour the Web to answer a question @dgreller – Users will be able to text friends or a chatbot that will scour the Web and other sources to answer a question
• IBM, JP Morgan build the Open Ledger Project, a blockchain for business services, overseen by the Linux Foundation – IBM, JP Morgan, and others build the Open Ledger Project, a blockchain for business services, overseen by the Linux Foundation
• Amazon Aurora Review – Congratulations to the @awscloud team – nfoWorld awarded Amazon Aurora "Editor's Choice" after an in-depth review. InfoWorld says "Amazon's revved-up database service offers five times the throughput of MySQL and a formidable alternative to Oracle and SQL Server".
• The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development offers over 3,400 pages of Android instruction, from the very basics through highly advanced topics. – The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development offers over 3,400 pages of Android instruction, from the very basics through highly advanced topics.