Monthly Archives: October 2016

Links for October 5th through October 27th

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Vinny

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• Look Ma, No Server: Corporate IT Expects ‘Serverless’ Computing to Trigger Big Changes #serverless – Next step of evolution toward cloud computing that began when physical servers largely were replaced with virtual technology or software
• Server Side Swift with Vapor: Getting Started #swiftlang – Vapor is an open source server side Swift framework, that helps you write web apps and services using Swift 3. Learn how to get started with Vapor, and create your first server side Swift web app.
• Amex for Developers – Connect to the American Express ecosystem with our suite of APIs – Connect to American Express services that power billions of transactions around the globe. Create, innovate and test new concepts. Get started today.
• Awesome .NET – A collection of awesome .NET libraries, tools, frameworks and software – A collection of awesome .NET libraries, tools, frameworks, and software
• JUnit 5 Quick Start Guide and Advanced by dmitrij-drandarov – JUnit 5 introduced a lot of interesting, fast ways to create tests. Be it Test-Factories, Test-Extensions (that only have to be written once), Lambda-Support etc. It pushed the D.R.Y. principle a lot!
• America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs – WSJ – The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. What it hasn’t delivered are many jobs.
• Serverless Framework V.1 – Getting Started – YouTube – The Framework uses new event-driven compute services, like AWS Lambda, Google CloudFunctions, and more. It's a command line tool, providing scaffolding, workflow automation and best practices for developing and deploying your serverless architecture. It's also completely extensible via plugins.
• Amazon Web Services — a practical guide – This guide is by and for engineers who use AWS. It aims to be a useful, living reference that consolidates links, tips, gotchas, and best practices. It arose from discussion and editing over beers by several engineers who have used AWS extensively
• Why the Best Leaders Want Their Superstar Employees to Leave – When a stream of top performers go on to better things, it usually hastens the flow of more top talent into the company
• Modern Swift Networking with Swish – Swish is a framework that is a wrapper around NSURLRequests. We’ll discuss how Swish helps you solve that problem by building requests and executing them. We’ll also discuss the protocols, how they work, and how to write tests for them.

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Links for September 12th through September 30th

Posted on October 1, 2016 by Vinny

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• StyleKit is a micro-framework that enables you to style your iOS apps using a JSON file – StyleKit is a micro-framework written in Swift that enables you to style your iOS applications using a simple JSON file. Behind the scenes, StyleKit uses UIAppearance and some selector magic to apply the styles.
• Android Studio Like a Boss – In this 360AnDev talk, we will take a detailed look at powerful but lesser known features. We will bend structural search and replace to our will, develop our own Live Templates, force Android Studio to interact with external tools and we will take a look at lesser known refactorings that you should be using
• Introducing the Realm Mobile Platform: Realtime Sync Plus Fully Open Source Database – Realm Mobile Platform, a new offering that integrates our fully open-source (see below!) client-side database for iOS and Android with new server-side technology providing realtime synchronization, conflict resolution, and reactive event handling
• IT as a service: From build to consume – The cloud debate is over—businesses are now moving a material portion of IT workloads to cloud environments. The impact will be considerable, for consumers and vendors of technology alike.
• Forget virtual assistants, Asteria wants to be your AI friend – This device plans to be your artificially intelligent wearable in the future
• Atomist – Build Applications, Not Infrastructure. – Atomist helps you ship faster by accelerating development from project creation throughout your project lifecycle. Easily compose, generate, and customize projects for building consistent microservices.
• New in Spring 5: Functional Web Framework – As mentioned yesterday in Juergen’s blog post, the second milestone of Spring Framework 5.0 introduced a new functional web framework. In this post, I will give more information about the framework.
• Vapor – Web Framework for Swift that works on iOS, macOS & Linux – Vapor, a Web Framework for Swift that works on iOS, macOS, and Ubuntu; and all of the packages that Vapor offers.
• Running TensorFlow with Jupyter Notebook on AWS – Google’s open source TensorFlow is one of the most promising machine learning frameworks nowadays
• Using the CloudRail Node.js SDK with Electron – CloudRail – Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS by providing a runtime with native operating system APIs. It is a variant of Node.js focused on desktop applications instead of servers and can thus use Node.js libraries. Consequently it is not hard to use the CloudRail SI Node.js SDK in Electron based applications and we will discuss how it’s done.