Recently, we published a post for finance leaders on how to break open the black box that is software development. Now, I’d like to share some guidance for their technology counterparts on how to avoid being perceived as a black box in the first place. First, let’s review the issue at hand from the perspective … continue reading
While getting software out into the world is the main goal of many companies, it’s important to remember that the engagement and happiness of the people building that software impacts how productive they are as well as the quality of their work. Unfortunately it’s all too common to find product teams overloaded and overwhelmed with … continue reading
Last week, the team behind the Flow programming language open-sourced the language. Flow is a language for creating complex, multi-platform apps. Flow was created in 2010, and is sometimes referred to as Flow9 in order to avoid confusion with Facebook’s ‘flow’ typechecker, which came out after. According to the Flow team, Flow is easy to … continue reading
DevOps and Agile are common practices, but they’re not enough to ensure the timely delivery of value to the business. While DevOps improves software delivery from code commit to code release and Agile improves the ability to create value via improved delivery timeframes, complete insight into the value that software teams deliver tends to go … continue reading
Microsoft is bringing new improvements and functionality to its business, low-code solutions Flow and PowerApps. Flow is an automated workflow solution while PowerApps is the company’s enterprise software service. In the Q1 update of Microsoft Flow, the company is bringing new updates to improve team productivity, extend partner services support and modernize business approvals. The … continue reading
Facebook has released the source code for Nuclide, its open IDE for React Native, Web and mobile development atop GitHub’s open-source Atom code editor. Among the many announcements made at Facebook’s F8 developer conference back in March, the company debuted Nuclide for unifying its internal development between native iOS apps, React and React Native code, … continue reading
Welcome to a special Thanksgiving edition of the Top 5 trending GitHub projects. There are still five projects and they’re still open source, but this week… you get them on a Wednesday! “Hooray!” yell all our loyal GitHub-loving readers in overjoyed unison. That’s totally what’s happening right now. Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving! #1: Interact.js Interact.js is … continue reading
#1: MetricsGraphics MetricsGraphics is a creation from the minds of the mad Web scientists at Mozilla. The JavaScript library is optimized for visualizing and laying out time-series data, providing a simple way to produce common types of graphics such as line charts, scatterplots and histograms in a consistent and responsive way. #2: Flow was featured … continue reading
Facebook is releasing an early version of its open-source static type checker for JavaScript. Flow is designed to advance developer productivity and ensure code quality with features such as early error checking and code intelligence, according to the company. “Facebook loves JavaScript; it’s fast, it’s expressive, and it runs everywhere, which makes it a great … continue reading
Microsoft has laid out its roadmap for TypeScript, charting the course of the programming language from versions 1.3 to 2.0. Since the 1.0 release of TypeScript—Microsoft’s superset JavaScript programming language—back in February, Microsoft has focused on performance improvements and growing the language’s open-source community. After an incremental release including a new, faster compiler, the TypeScript … continue reading
Do the old notions of flow and distractions still mean the same thing in the era of Facebook and Twitter? … continue reading
