Ember.js video documentary released
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
Honeypot.io based in Berlin has released an open-source documentary on the story of Ember.js. The documentary was filmed with Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale, the co-creators of Ember.js and shot in Portland, New York, Amsterdam, Dublin and Munich.
It tells the story of how Ember.js came to be and the life-altering decisions that go into making open-source software.
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Ember talks about their JavaScript framework
Friday, March 30, 2018 by Richard Harris
The EmberConf, now in their 5th year, recently took place in Portland where all things Ember were talked about during the 3 day event. There was advanced Mirage training, Broccoli.js tutorials, chats about progressive web apps, and lots of talk about Ember.js - especially the new release of 3.0.Tom Dale, a senior staff engineer at LinkedIn, is one of the founders and cr...
Bringing Node.js and Drupal together
Monday, October 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Acquia has unveiled a new application service for Acquia Cloud that makes it easy for digital IT teams to build and run JavaScript alongside Drupal. Acquia Cloud now supports the use of Node.js in addition to Drupal. “Decoupled applications using JavaScript front ends are on the rise. They’re making it possible to create experiences with responsive, elegant, applic...
What app development technologies we missed in 2016 and what's coming next
Saturday, January 14, 2017 by TJ VanToll
It’s that time again to look at the year ahead and consider what trends and technologies will reign supreme in the application development world. As mobile apps become the main driver of accelerating digital transformation in businesses, more developers and vendors are focusing on the latest technology needed to excel. But with developer tools and languages evolving as ...
Angular 2: What's good, what's bad, what's next
Thursday, October 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
Angular 2 is the full-platform successor to Google’s Angular 1 web application framework, made for building complex applications in browsers and beyond. First announced in October 2014, the complete and final version of Angular 2 was just released in September 2016. Angular 2 is a big step forward for the Angular framework, but how exactly is the second edition of the f...
Realtime streaming and better security for DevOps with new MaxScale 2.0
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 by Richard Harris
MariaDB Corporation has announced the general availability of MaxScale 2.0, which adds new data streaming integration with Kafka. MaxScale is a next-generation database proxy that manages administrative functions like security, scalability, data streaming and high availability, enabling the database to focus on core functionality.At its core, MaxScale has a multi-thread...
The Future of IoT
Monday, September 26, 2016 by Amit Arora
“There will be 34 billion devices connected to the internet by 2020” as per Business Insider report. “By 2020, there will be close to 10 million Internet of Things developers” predicts Vision Mobile. IoT space is surely booming in leaps and bounds. However, some questions that need an answer include what all it has in store for us in future? How would IoT affect the way...
New Relic Now Offers Browser Monitoring for SPAs
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
New Relic has announced updates to its New Relic Browser providing new support for web applications built with single-page application (SPA) frameworks and libraries. When combined with New Relic APM, the browser monitoring for SPAs will allow users to have end-to-end visibility of their application’s performance, from the front-end to the services it is running on.New ...
SOASTA Releases Updates to Digital Performance Management Platform
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
SOASTA has released the latest version of its Digital Performance Management (DPM) Platform, offering advancements in front-end web and mobile performance optimization and support for open source tools and frameworks such as JMeter.SOASTA’s DPM platform includes CloudTest for integrated load testing, mPulse for real user monitoring, TouchTest for mobile performance and ...
New Data on Which Programming Languages Skills Are in Highest Demand
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 by Richard Harris
New data has been made available which provides a snapshot of what programming languages are currently in the highest demand. The data is based on the internal company reporting from Toptal, a marketplace connecting companies with developers, engineers, programmers, coders, architects, and consultants.When looking at the company’s year to year data, the following shows ...
Get Out of the Cold Weather with Ft. Lauderdale UX and FrontEnd Conference
Thursday, January 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
UXDevSummit is a three-day event focused on the areas of User Experience (UX) and Front-End Development. Located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and held on February 4 – 6, the event offers keynotes, panels, workshops, exhibits, and entertainment that showcase leading advancements in UX and Front-End Development integration.The conference targets UX Professionals, Back and F...
Red Hat's Mobile App Platform Includes New Push Notification Capabilities
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The main focus of the recently released Version 3.6 of the Feed Henry’s (which is now owned by Red Hat) cross platform Mobile Application Platform (MHP) is the integration of the Aerogear UnifiedPush Server into the platform which provides improved iOS, Android and Windows Phone push notification functionality. Also new is Windows 10 support.With the UnifiedPush Server ...
Making the Move from GWT to AngularJS
Friday, June 26, 2015 by Brian Dill
If your framework’s not broken why you should fix it?Adopting an effective development framework takes time, resources and dedication from your team. So if you have a framework that is working, why would you want to change it?Because when you reevaluate your goals, you may find that even if all systems are working, you could be missing the bigger picture. This was our t...
App Developer Event Planning Guide for February and March 2015
Tuesday, February 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
If you’re a developer looking for a event to attend the next couple of months, you are in luck! This part of our ongoing series highlighting events focuses on conferences available in February and March. If you want to see our suggestions for the top conferences to attend for 2015, check out the list here.February 2015- DeveloperWeek 2015: As we reported earlier th...
A Fast App is a Successful App: Tips for Developing Enterprise Mobile Apps that Don’t Leave Employees Waiting
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 by Mark Kirstein
When we listen to the criteria enterprise users take into account when judging the quality of the mobile apps they use, we hear two more often than others: app speed and app responsiveness. Nowadays no one likes to wait (or, perhaps more accurately, nowadays we don’t tolerate waiting). When users see the message “waiting for download” pumping the brakes on their product...
Sencha Space – Solving BYOD with Cross Platform Management to Build and Deploy Secure Mobile HTML5 Apps
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 by Nicholas Harlow
With more and more enterprises adopting BYOD policies, the challenge for IT departments has become how to manage personal and professional applications on the same device, making sure company information is secure without infringing upon personal privacy. The importance of this issue will only grow as mobility becomes an even greater fixture in the enterprise.At Sencha,...
Kinvey Launches New Libraries for Mobile Web Development
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Kinvey has announced new libraries for mobile web development including a full range of JavaScript, Backbone.js, Ember.js and Angular.js frameworks in addition to enhancements to its PhoneGap and Appcelerator Titanium modules. These new capabilities give enterprise customers more flexibility to deliver mobile applications for employees, partners and custo...
TodoMVC 1.2 Is Released
Thursday, August 8, 2013 by Richard Harris
If you need help deciphering which JavaScript MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework to use in your next project TodoMVC can help with the release of version 1.2 just announced this week.Their framework is a backbone to many other JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, Ember.js, and many others. You can think of it sort of like .NET which brings many langua...
Ember 1.0 RC released
Saturday, February 16, 2013 by Richard Harris
Ember.js has released their RC (release candidate) version 1.0.This is very close to becoming the full release and will give developers a chance to really see what the engine can do. Largely being java and DOM based, it's set to compete head to head with native application programming for mobile by providing key concepts out of the box that native programmers are used t...
