Microsoft has announced Visual Studio Code is now open sourced. VS Code is a new tool that aims to provide the simplicity of a code editor with necessary tools developers need for their core edit, build and debug cycle, according to the project’s GitHub page. It features editing and debugging support, an extensibility model, and lightweight integration with existing tools. The project … continue reading
Software teams for decades have hoped to build platforms in which they can construct software like Legos. Block upon block, infrastructure piece upon infrastructure piece, it is said, the future will enable us to piece together programs from smaller primitives and link them together as easily as clicking blocks into place. This, of course, is … continue reading
Microservices are becoming increasingly popular in the software industry as a way for developers to break down their monolithic applications into smaller components, so today we are featuring a microservices toolkit for Node.js. Seneca aims to take dependencies out of a developer’s workflow so they just have to worry about writing clean and organized code. … continue reading
A cloud service that enables Cordova and React Native developers to deploy mobile app updates directly to their users’ devices is our GitHub Project of the Week. Basically, CodePush allows you to push code updates to your apps instantly. It works by acting as a central repository that developers can publish updates to and that … continue reading
When you ask Siri what she thinks of Microsoft’s personal assistant Cortana, her answers range from “I really have no opinion” to “I’d rather not say.” To any unsuspecting human, those might seem like reasonable answers, but in a girl’s world, the world of passive aggression, those are some fighting words. And that might only … continue reading
This is bringing our staff back to the days of when high school lists would float around the school, telling us which kids were “hot or not.” Instead of a list, we now have a selfie bot that will rate your selfie. Andrej Karpathy is part of a project involving deep neural networks. On his … continue reading
Tomorrow is Halloween, and to honor the holiday, we are featuring this creepy animation in our GitHub Project of the Week. Halloween eyes is a motion-sensitive animation that makes electronic eyes go from sweet and friendly to mean and spooky when you get closer. “For Halloween this year, some friends did a sort of ‘mini … continue reading
Halloween is almost here, and that means dressing up and going out to celebrate. Don’t be a party pooper and forgo your costume. Following in our annual tradition of costumes for the lazy developer, we present you with a number of ideas for costumes ranging from simple, nerdy, hilarious to spooky. Cloud computing Are you … continue reading
Another Steve Jobs movie? That’s what a majority of people thought when it was revealed that screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director Danny Boyle would be taking on a new biopic of the iconic technology figure Steve Jobs. The first biopic was released in 2013, starring Ashton Kutcher, and let’s just say it didn’t sit well … continue reading
The Force is strong with this GitHub project. It is no secret that a new Star Wars movie is coming out in just a few months. StarWars.iOS, created by mobile app development solution provider Yalantis, honors the upcoming movie by providing the ability to implement Star Wars animation into applications. “Have you ever thought that … continue reading
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads,” Dr. Emmett Brown famously said in the hit movie “Back to the Future.” Doc was wrong about that, though. Today you still need roads, but perhaps what we don’t need are drivers. Today is Back to the Future Day, the day on which Marty McFly and Doc … continue reading
CIOs today are concerned with three key areas: security, DevOps and the cloud. But DevOps is a misnomer, according to test platform provider Appvance CEO Kevin Surace, because it purposely leaves out QA. And as anyone who’s had to deal with the aftermath of buggy, poor-performing software knows, you have to test before you deploy. … continue reading
Think of the words “simplicity, performance and usability.” They were key components of Leaflet, an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. Leaflet was developed by Vladimir Agafonkin of MapBox, which is a building-block application that makes it easy to integrate location into mobile applications. The library weighs about 33KB of gzipped JavaScript code, and … continue reading
I had a high C-level in the valley tell me, during a heated interview a few weeks back, that he didn’t fear anyone coming after his products with huge swarms of developers. Rather, he feared teams of three to 10 people. It’s a sentiment I heard years ago, while interviewing Verizon’s CIO. His internal software … continue reading
