Straight to serverless: Leapfrogging turtles all the way down
The practice of building and shipping software has been under a steady iterative change over the last decade. The overall arc of this journey carries us...
Building full-stack dApps today
Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) have promised the internet several significant improvements: Manageable transparency and governance of data Bulletproof security, through trustless systems Significantly decreased...
Know your history – IDEs are a developer’s best friend
Caesar may have been warned about the Ides, but computer science has long relied on IDEs, or integrated development environments. This integral part of computing has...
Which technology will bloom in 2019? – Some early predictions
2018 has definitely been a busy and fruitful year for many of our favorite technologies. There are some, however, that enjoyed a bit more space under...
Now’s the time to get involved with JDK 8u
Stephen Colebourne said in an interview at last year’s JAX London that “Java 8 will satisfy us for a good few years until there’s something really big...
How much memory is my application wasting?
In the early 1970s, 1 MB of memory cost $1 million. Now, there is no comparison; 1 MB is a fraction of that cost. This is...
“The number of women in tech is increasing but the growth path for them is not very lucrative”
A research study by The National Center for Women & Information Technology showed that “gender diversity has specific benefits in technology settings,” which could explain why tech...
Manifold: The reinvention of code generators
This is the second in a series of articles covering Manifold, a new breed of tooling for Java. Part 1 introduces the Type Manifold API, a powerful...
Debunking testing misunderstandings: “Testing code is even more important than producing code”
“Testing is one of the foundations of the software industry” Testing is, more often than not, only introduced at the very end of the process but...
Developers can take advantage of NASA’s web-based mission control framework for data visualization on mobile & desktop
As a government agency aimed at scientific exploration, NASA regularly open sources its software and technical apps for the world to enjoy. After all, their goal...
