Eric Snyder recently wrote a post about comparing Clojure and Go on his blog.
“There are 2 programming languages that I am into at the moment, Clojure and Go (http://golang.org). They seem to be opposites of each other in many ways, how can I love both?”
Apple recently announced that new apps and app updates must be built with Xcode 5 and optimized for iOS 7 starting February 1st, 2014. What does this mean? Well, even if your app was built and released on iOS 6 and currently looks fine running on iOS 7, your next app update will change all that. Building with Xcode 5 will now result in the app using the iOS 7 widgets when running on an iOS 7 device. Depending on how…
Sometimes I need to keep a list to keep me on target. Since I spend most of my day on a command line I need to minimize death by alt-tab. That’s one of the things that stops me from using the various beautiful task apps on the desktop. That’s why the command line GTD/task manager Task Warrior got me hooked.
Building new software from scratch is one of life’s great pleasures for a developer. It gives us a chance to “do it right” that we typically don’t have when doing maintenance work. More often than not though, we find ourselves working on an older system and need to work around old decisions made by long gone developers. For old applications that still serve the business requirements, maintenance is the name of the game. We have to add new features, fix…
Sujan Kapadia writes: “This year I’ve started going to the DataPhilly meetups, and I think I’m hooked. The bottom line is DataPhilly talks are very intriguing, expose you to topics you don’t encounter everyday, and give you the chance to meet “non-traditional” developers (scientists and statisticians), whose ranks are rapidly growing.”
Software development isn’t easy. And the bigger the software gets, the harder it is to build right from the ground up. Here are 5 things to consider to bump the odds in your favor.
We are holding an all-day event on October 30th, downtown in the Philadelphia Cira Centre, that shines a light on large-scale data processing and application management. In this article I’m going to explain a bit about the event’s goals, and some information on the speakers and talks we’ve been lining up.
This is the second in a series of articles about using automated testing tools on a Canvas-based Web application. Each article covers a different testing tool or technique (see the first on WebDriver).
PhoneGap 3.0 was released at PhoneGap day in Portland, OR last week. This article looks at the great changes with this new release.
This is the first in a series of articles about using automated testing tools on a Canvas-based Web application. Each article covers a different testing tool or technique.
