Uber Engineering
APRIL 20, 2016
A few months back, we discussed Uber’s decision to abandon its monolithic codebase in favor of a modular, flexible microservice architecture. Since then, we’ve devoted many thousands of engineering hours to expanding this ecosystem of Uber microservices (several hundred … The post Rewriting Uber Engineering: The Opportunities Microservices Provide appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.
The Polyglot Developer
APRIL 18, 2016
This year was the year that I started two different podcasts, one titled The Polyglot Developer Podcast and the other being The NoSQL Database Podcast. I’ve been getting a few questions regarding this, but people are asking where I’m hosting the episodes. This is a great question! I’m actually hosting these podcasts using Amazon’s S3 service because it is cheap and incredibly easy to get set up with.
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Tim Kadlec
APRIL 14, 2016
I head out of the airport in San Francisco and grab a taxi. I consider myself an outgoing and social person, but I’ve just spent six hours or so crammed next to a bunch of strangers in a combination of airports and planes. All I want to do right now is hang in the back seat of this taxi, enjoying 45 minutes of quiet. You never know with taxis though.
Abhishek Tiwari
APRIL 22, 2016
To unlock the true value of data, organisations will need internal data services. Data services provide streamlined and centralised data access to a diverse set of users which removes the friction in delivering faster insights, products and services. Data services promote innovation. In addition, effective implementation of data services can reduce data duplication hence reducing the cost of data management and storage.
Testlodge
APRIL 12, 2016
We’ve written about a number of different types of software testing in the past, from functional testing , black & white box testing , smoke testing , pair testing and more. Many of these testing methods have rigid structures and rules, and a lot of planning and preparation go into them. Most testing involves following a script (a test case) and comparing expected results to actual results.
The Agile Manager
APRIL 30, 2016
I ended the previous post by stating that the stage is set for more radical change. Why? Consider the changing attitude toward land, property and shelter. For the pre-1965 generation, land meant a lot of things. It was wilderness to be fought with, to be made into a suitable place to live. It was where you built your shelter. It was how you earned or supplemented your living, by farming, mining, logging, or guiding.
Dotcom-Montior
APRIL 18, 2016
As all good “web crawlers” know, when generating website alerts that may wake up a team of devops and support staff at 2:00 AM, you want to make sure you have detected an actual problem by managing false positives. The more granular the website monitoring that you set up, the more opportunities arise to report false positives. … The post With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility (Managing False Positives) appeared first on Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog.
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The Polyglot Developer
APRIL 20, 2016
Recently I wrote an article regarding how to use SQLite in a NativeScript Android and iOS mobile application. In my previous tutorial the assumption was that the database would be created fresh. However, what if you want to ship a pre-filled SQLite database with your application? Maybe you have 10,000 records that you prefer not to have to download from a remote web server, or maybe there is another reason.
The Polyglot Developer
APRIL 15, 2016
When developing mobile apps, at some point in time you may find yourself needing to show a background notification to your users. There are two types of notifications, one being the push notification which is sent from a remote server and the other being local notifications that are triggered from within the application. We’re going to focus on local notifications here.
The Polyglot Developer
APRIL 8, 2016
I’ve been writing developer related content for a few years now, most of which I distribute for free. Sure I have some donation requests around this blog, but I never demand any and I try not to force it on you. I enjoy helping the developer community, and more, I enjoy creating a healthy developer community that helps each other. This is a short story on how the developer community that I created, heard my request for help, and offered to lend me their skills.
The Polyglot Developer
APRIL 29, 2016
You may or may not know it, but I am very active on various social media outlets as well as this developer blog. Since I don’t give out my email address, social media is a great way to communicate with me if the comments section of this blog isn’t relevant. I want this to be an opportunity for all my subscribers to take a moment to follow me on social media if they are not already.
The Polyglot Developer
APRIL 25, 2016
A few years ago a wrote a tutorial for sending emails in an Ionic Framework Android and iOS application. The tutorial works great, but it requires that a mail application be used to finalize the send. In other words, you can set default values for email fields, but you still need to select Gmail or similar to actually send the email. A popular question I receive is how to send emails without launching an email application.
The Polyglot Developer
APRIL 22, 2016
As I continue to port my Ionic Framework tutorials to Ionic 2, I figured it was time to discuss how to make use of the device camera within an application. There are often needs to obtain pictures within an application. Maybe you’re creating an application like Imgur, or maybe you just want to be able to obtain a profile picture. Like I mentioned, I had written a camera tutorial a few years back on how to use the camera in an Ionic Framework application.
The Polyglot Developer
APRIL 13, 2016
I get this question a lot, not necessarily for NativeScript , but for other mobile frameworks. The question is, how do you send emails from within your Android and iOS application without launching one of the already installed mail apps? In other words how do you send emails via a custom form within the application or in the background? A solution to this question would be to use a backend web server that can send mail and create an API endpoint to it that can be accessed from your mobile app.
The Polyglot Developer
APRIL 6, 2016
Not too long ago I wrote a tutorial regarding saving data in a NativeScript mobile application using the application settings module that closely resembled that of HTML5 local storage. If you’re not familiar with the application settings module, it is persisted storage using key value pairs. What if you wanted a storage option that was a bit more query friendly?
The Polyglot Developer
APRIL 4, 2016
Unit testing! It’s something that we as developers all understand the importance of and implement in every project, right? cough. Anyway… did you know NativeScript supports unit testing out of the box? It’s true! By unit testing your application, you can ensure that any changes you’ve made to your code are working properly and that they haven’t broken any previous code.
The Polyglot Developer
APRIL 2, 2016
There are a lot of “first” approaches circulating in the development and design space at the moment, but what does all this jargon mean? In this episode of the Polyglot Developer Podcast, guest speaker William Hoang and I are going to explore some of the common practices such as mobile first, offline first, and API first. I’ve broken Episode #4: What is All This Mobile First, Offline, First, and API First Jargon?
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