Devlopment tales

When looking at the existing JavaScript solutions for building native iOS and Android apps, it's a fact that they're powerful and can extremely reduce the amount of application development time. On the other side it's also clear that they come with drawbacks and limitations. It depends heavily on a project's requirements and of course on the developer skills and sensibilities. App performance and UI responsiveness are the main aspects when it comes to the question of using a JavaScript solution or not (native apps with a single C# code base can be realized with Xamarin). It should be clear that WebView wrapper approaches will never reach native-quality UI performance. So developers should start with a proof of concept when choosing a HTML-based WebView solution: mastering dynamic data and optimizing form controls are non-trivial tasks. The Mobile App Framework Matrix represents a comparison and documentation of current technologies for building native iOS and A...

Google  I/O developer conference 2015 unveiled new version Android M. It looks very promising. As told, there are now over 4,000 apps for Android Wear and designers have created more than 1,500 watch faces.  There is deeper integration of Google Now into Android. So, Google Now cards will be able to appear everywhere in the phone, ready to be called up within apps or the Web via a feature Google calls "Now on Tap". Will get quick answers to quick ques. Eg: card on a movie/event while sending email.  With M, the app will download and install without presenting permissions required, but then ask for those permissions at the time it is first looking to take action. Android Studio Ide is the tool everyone should use for app development. On testing end, Google is adding a feature into its tools that lets developers run automated tests of their Android code against 20 popular devices at no charge. It builds on last year’s acquisition of Appurify. Android devel...

If you haven't tried CodePen yet. You are missing something really interesting. CodePen is an HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code editor in your browser with instant previews. It's a playground for the front end side of the web. It's all about inspiration, education, and sharing. Need to build a reduced test case to demonstrate and figure out a bug?  Want to show off your latest creation and get feedback from your peers? Want to find examples of a particular design pattern for your project?  CodePen is great to use for all of these situation

What is Angular JS? Angular.JS is an open source web application framework maintained by Google. It is a robust client-side technology for building modern web applications using model-view controller (MVC) software architecture. Angular.JS adds more functionality and features to a single-page HTML web application. Today, a lot of developers rely heavily on the MEAN stack (Mongo.DB, Express.JS, Angular.JS and Node.JS) and learning Angular.JS is surely a fruitful investment. Angular.JS offers a bunch of interesting features, such as asynchronous dependency injection, deep link routing, form validation, two-way data binding and deep linking, to name a few. Some of the popular applications built using Angular.JS: Dematerializer (a blogging platform) PunchPlay (music player application)  Sendmachine (an email marketing tool)  Betrend (a fashion portal)  So, what makes Angular.JS a preferred choice for designing web applications? Let us take a look at some of its promi...

Why a re-introduction? Because JavaScript is notorious for being the world's most misunderstood programming language. It is used by an incredible number of high-profile applications, showing that deeper knowledge of this technology is an important skill for any web or mobile developer. Rekindle your memory with awesomeness of javascript. Full article available on Mozilla developer Network (MDN)

Working in the Cloud By Simon Murcott , Solnet Solutions . He specialize in: DevOps, Unix systems, security, scripting, software development, systems integration etc.. He described about, how cloud environments are being used by modern businesses. He also walked us through, what it is like to be a cloud provider and other aspects of working in IT that are not development related. Many options are available for an IT career other than being a developer. He explored the daily life (and differences between) a developer, infrastructure engineer, middleware specialist, integration engineer and product specialist. It was very insightful. He spoke about : FreeBSD is an advanced computer operating system used to power modern servers, desktops and embedded platforms. OpenStack Open source software for creating private and public clouds. OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or vi...

If you ask 10 people to define Agile development and you will receive 11 definitions emphasizing different aspects of the process. I got to hear a talk (Presented by Anthony Boobier (Nomad8)) to clear up the confusion of this buzzwords and shed light onto the fundamentals of Agile software development. We looked into what problems Agile is trying to solve and dive deep into the reasons why it works. We undertook a brief journey into the history of software development, explore the principles and values behind Agile and then later focused on how to manage our work in an Agile fashion using its most prevalent flavour, Scrum. Scrum is a development framework in which cross-functional teams develop products or projects in an iterative, incremental manner. It structures development in cycles of work called Sprints. These iterations are no more than four weeks each (the most common is two weeks), and take place one after the other without pause. The Sprints are timeboxed – they en...

Yesterday, 13 May,2015 I got an opportunity to hear from a Design Lead from Optimal Experience PwC..Graham Howe, their best practices in design thinking and design process. It was all about Research, sketching, wireframes, testing, iterations and prototyping. We tried out mocking pages for a government acc site on how to find levy codes for users. It was an intense workshop. Just in 15 minutes time period, we had so much ideas on the paper. It was just beautiful.

Are you new to CSS? This article is for you! Perhaps the biggest key to understanding CSS is understanding selectors. Selectors are what allows you to target specific HTML elements and apply style to them. For reading the full article please click the below link. How CSS Selectors Work CSS Reference This CSS Reference lists all standard CSS properties, pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements, @-rules, units, and selectors in alphabetic order. It allows you to quickly access detailed information for each of them. It not only lists the CSS 1 and CSS 2.1 properties, but also is a CSS3 reference that links to any CSS3 property and concept standardized, or already stabilized.