Tim Kadlec
DECEMBER 3, 2015
A lot of folks have been very vocally pushing for “HTTPS Everywhere”, and for good reason. The fact that the lack of HTTPS makes you miss out on shiny new things like HTTP/2 and Service Workers adds even more incentive for those a little less inspired by the security arguments. Unfortunately, moving to HTTPS can be kind of painful as you can see from Jeremy Keith’s excellent post detailing exactly how he got adactio.com onto HTTPS.
The Polyglot Developer
DECEMBER 28, 2015
Bluehost is a great service that is incredibly cheap, but depending on the amount of traffic that you receive, a Bluehost server may not be able to accommodate in performance. For example my WordPress blog, the one you’re on now, receives too much traffic, which is why I had to host it on a VPS service. In particular I’m hosting this WordPress blog on Digital Ocean.
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Abhishek Tiwari
DECEMBER 22, 2015
DevOps is a cultural shift with immediate focus on maximising the business value by opting better communication, collaboration and feedback within and across IT development and operation teams. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a key element of DevOps philosophy with benefits for both development and operation teams. The term infrastructure as code is sometimes also referred to as programmable infrastructure.
Professor Beekums
DECEMBER 25, 2015
It’d be hard to be a software developer these days without hearing about “being agile” Agile is a popular software development process. It is intentionally loosely defined, though that naturally leads to many many different opinions about what it is. The spectrum varies from those who think there are some rules that absolutely must be followed in order to be considered agile to those who use it to justify a lack of process.
The Agile Manager
DECEMBER 31, 2015
Earlier this year, my house should have burned to the ground. A CR2032 battery exploded and caught fire in a confined place dense with flammable objects. But my house didn't burn down: at the moment the battery exploded, I was sitting a few feet away from it. I heard a loud bang, investigated, and stamped out the fire within a few seconds. I wasn't planning to be there at the time.
Allen Holub
DECEMBER 31, 2015
I wrote for DDJ (may it rest in peace) for many many years. Towards the end, I wrote a blog on agile-related topics.
Tim Kadlec
DECEMBER 29, 2015
The five most read posts of 2015, in order. Apple’s Web. I’m good for a heat of the moment rant about either standards or Apple (often both) every couple years. This year, it was about Apple’s influence over the standardization process after some fallout around the Pointer Events specification. Client-side MVC’s Major Bug. If your client-side MVC framework does not support server-side rendering, that is a bug.
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The Polyglot Developer
DECEMBER 7, 2015
To continue my sprint on Telerik NativeScript related topics, I figured it was time I talk about how to handle navigation to different routes or views within an application. With platforms such as React Native you would use a Navigator component and in platforms such as Ionic Framework you would use the AngularJS UI-Router. With NativeScript, it is even easier to navigate between routes.
The Polyglot Developer
DECEMBER 27, 2015
Ionic 2 is becoming all the rage right now because of it using Angular. With the introduction of Angular, comes many differences in the language and framework itself. One of the most critical parts of any mobile application is its ability to save data and have it persisted when the application is launched at a later date. I demonstrated in Ionic Framework 1 how to use SQLite as a storage solution, so I figured it would be a good idea to demonstrate the same using Ionic Framework 2.
Professor Beekums
DECEMBER 25, 2015
It’d be hard to be a software developer these days without hearing about “being agile” Agile is a popular software development process. It is intentionally loosely defined, though that naturally leads to many many different opinions about what it is. The spectrum varies from those who think there are some rules that absolutely must be followed in order to be considered agile to those who use it to justify a lack of process.
The Polyglot Developer
DECEMBER 25, 2015
Toast notifications are a common thing in Android applications. They are convenient because you can display a message to a user and have it disappear shortly after without blocking any of the UI that might exist within the application. I already demonstrated how to display these notifications in an Ionic Framework application , but this time I’m changing gears to explain how it is done using Telerik NativeScript.
The Polyglot Developer
DECEMBER 23, 2015
In most scenarios, when developing a mobile application, you’re going to want multiple pages or screens for displaying information. In Ionic Framework 1, you’d use the AngularJS UI-Router to navigate between pages , but things are different when it comes to Angular and Ionic 2. The UI-Router is not present in the latest version of Ionic Framework. We’re going to take a look at navigating around an Ionic 2 application and see how easy it is.
The Polyglot Developer
DECEMBER 21, 2015
At the moment Node.js is my web development language of choice, but occasionally I come across something that really grinds my gears. I sometimes find that I’ve fallen into an async hell that screws up a lot of things. For example, maybe I’ve designed an API endpoint that makes a few requests to external services. Before returning data to the client (user), manipulations must be done on the external service data requested.
The Polyglot Developer
DECEMBER 18, 2015
With all the buzz around NativeScript , I figured it was about time that I demonstrate how to access native features of a device without the use of any plugins. To start off slow I decided it might be convenient to see how to obtain the application version number and display it within the application. To be clear, there are plugins to do all this for you, but the point I’m trying to prove is how easy it is to access core features of iOS and Android with limited knowledge of both.
The Polyglot Developer
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Since the release of iOS 9, a ton of stress has been put on mobile developers because of forced changes that Apple put in place. The most common problem developers are facing resides in the App Transport Security (ATS) policies that Apple now requires when accessing insecure resources external from the deployed application. This article is actually very similar to the one I wrote regarding Ionic Framework and Apache Cordova.
Tim Kadlec
DECEMBER 30, 2015
It’s that time of year again. The time when readers everywhere post their “best books of whatever-year” and “my favorite books of the year” lists making my pile of books to read grow rapidly. As usual, I’m happy to return the favor. As I did in the past, I’ve included a rating and short review of each book I’ve read to give both you and I some idea of why I enjoyed each book.
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