CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

An exciting new partnership to offer public workshops

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

AWS re:Invent is just over one week away—as I prepare to head to Vegas, I’m pumped up about the chance to interact with AWS-powered startups from around the world. One of my favorite parts of the week is being able to host three startup-focused sessions Thursday afternoon: The Startup Scene in 2016: a Visionary Panel [Thursday, 2:45PM]. In this session, I’ll moderate a diverse panel of technology experts who’ll discuss emerging trends all startups should be aware of, including how local governme

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Uber Engineering

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Like many startups, Uber began its journey with a monolithic architecture, built for a single offering in a single city. At the time, all of Uber was our UberBLACK option and our “world” was San Francisco. Having one codebase seemed … The post Service-Oriented Architecture: Scaling the Uber Engineering Codebase As We Grow appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Architecture Engineering 81

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The web has always evolved fairly quickly but as of late it sure feels like the pace has picked up substantially. There are a plethora of new standards and techniques emerging that range from incremental improvements to potentially giant leaps forward. We have the mass migration to HTTPS. There’s HTTP/2 which provides the first major update to HTTP in over 15 years.

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Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I have been playing with Apache Drill for quite some time now. In layman’s terms, Apache Drill is SQL query engine which can perform queries against any type of data store - in particular any non-relational data store. Apache Drill’s ability to query against raw data files stored on the cloud storage platforms such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage makes it a really attractive and cost effective query engine.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Keeping up the trend of React Native coolness, I figured it would be a good idea to see how to access the native device clipboard. I had already demonstrated the device clipboard with Ionic Framework so it would only be fair to accomplish the same with React Native as well. Out of the box with React Native you won’t be able to access the clipboard. You’re going to have to install a component, and lucky for us, one such component exists.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This week we added support for organizations with multiple teams and multiple users. One of the toughest challenges was simply working out what to call the different layers within the SpeedCurve app. Developers can spend years buried inside a data model but at the end of the day the UI has to be intuitive and easy to use! I hope we’ve done that and if not we’d love your feedback.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Around 2010, when US companies could count on a recovering domestic economy, a weak US dollar, and growing emerging market economies, CFOs didn't need to work that hard to flatter the income statement. This has changed: the US recovery has been inconsistent, emerging markets are performing poorly and the US dollar is strong (taking the edge off overseas revenue).

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Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

We are observing a new era in database technology space, drop-in replacements with order of magnitude improvement in performance over their counterparts. First Amazon Aurora and now Scylla DB. Although the concept of drop-in replacements is not something new but most recently these substitutes started pushing the performance boundaries using completely overhauled architecture.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Out of the box mobile platforms, and even React Native for that matter, don’t ship with a very large selection of icons. If we’ve chosen to use React Native as our development framework then we’re lucky that there is a great component that can be added to give us thousands of icons for use in our application. Previously I wrote about how to use Font Awesome in an Ionic Framework and native Android applications.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

In many mobile applications it is essential to be able to use the device camera. Maybe you’re creating the next Instagram or other photo sharing application. Previously I wrote how to use the device camera in Ionic Framework , but how might we do the same with React Native ? Lucky for us, with React Native, there is an external component that lets us use the camera.

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Mobile Development 52

The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

I recently picked up some Estimote iBeacons to play around with and figured I’d try to get them working in an Ionic Framework Android and iOS application. If you’re unfamiliar with iBeacons, they are small bluetooth proximity devices. There are many different manufacturers, but Estimote appears to have the best advertised battery life and durability. iBeacons generally broadcast a signal every 100ms to 1000ms depending on the configuration or brand.

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Mobile Traffic Code Development 52

The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

If you’ve been keeping up with my blog, you’ll know I did an article for doing HTTP requests with Ionic Framework. Since I’ve been playing around with React Native a lot lately, I figured it is probably a good idea to figure out how to do RESTful HTTP requests sooner than later since everything has an API back-end now. The Facebook documentation for React Native has (or had at the time of writing this) a tutorial for getting movie data from a remote API.

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Internet Internet Development 52

The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In case you’re interested in seeing me present on Node.js or Ionic Framework and Couchbase, I’ll be giving two talks at the free to attend Silicon Valley Code Camp in San Jose, California. It is the weekend of October 3rd to October 4th. The title of my talks are Quick and Easy Development with Node.js and Couchbase Server and Cross Platform Storage & Sync with Couchbase and Ionic Framework.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I’m trying something new so bare with me here. I speak at quite a few events (conferences, meetups, code camps, etc.) so I figured it would be useful to my followers to know when and where these events are in case I am in your part of the world. I’ll keep it short and to the point. I’m going to be in New York on October 6th, 2015 to present at Couchbase Live New York.

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Servers Code Development 40

The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

When creating a mobile application, chances are at some point in time you’re going to want to have more than one application view or screen. In many programming languages this is referred to as application routes. With React Native , the navigator is used to switch between screens. The post Using Navigator Routes In Your React Native Application appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

In case I’m in your part of the world, I’ll be giving a talk at the Phoenix Mobile Festival in Phoenix, Arizona on September 19th, 2015. I encourage you to attend or at least swing by and say hello. The title of my talk is Building Offline First Mobile Applications and the abstract is as follows: What happens when your mobile device does not have a network connection?

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

So you’ve been fiddling with React Native for a bit now like I have. If you’re like me then you’re at a point where you’re ready to look at saving and loading data in your mobile application. Now I’ve previously demonstrated saving data with Ionic Framework , so the goals I’m about to share are going to be very similar. We’re going to focus on React Native’s AsyncStorage class to accomplish what we need.

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