Coding is always fun at Wingify, be it a Wingify Camp or a Fun Friday. And to add to the fun, in a Fun Friday Code In the Dark was organized…
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We’re releasing new plugins today for the 3.4 release, if there are major regressions we’ll push out new versions for the release itself but if they are stable they will be the actual release versions. We had a great week on stackoverflow as well with many excellent questions. As usual this post isn’t exhaustive and doesn’t cover all the questions asked, but it should provide a sense of the top discussions of the week.
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Techniques for dramatically speeding up UI test execution in Xcode using parallelization and optimization strategies.
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In January and February of this year we open sourced three SBT plugins that have had a huge impact on our ability to test our AWS based Scala microservices architecture: sbt-s3 sbt-dynamodb sbt-sqs This is our story . Stop me if you've heard this one before. After one too
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Let’s face it, when we’re in the office 40+ hours a week, the way an office is designed inherently impacts our health, well-being, and work product.
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Dr. David Walton, as director of Global Health for Thoughtworks, leads a team of about 100 people who leverage their expertise in technology and software while working with health organizations to improve healthcare delivery for those who are poor and marginalized. The focus of this group is to abate health disparities through the use of technology solutions best suited to the environment.
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We get a lot of requests to compare Codename One to other technologies and while we do have a comparison page it is somewhat static. Doing a comparison within a blog post does have the advantage of focusing on one technology and allowing comments. In this segment we’ll compare the venerable QT to Codename One. When developers started asking for this comparison I was of the opinion that it made no sense. The technologies are so far a..
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Starting tonight I’ll start a small personal experiment. I will restart my laptop every night about an hour before I go to bed. The first reason is to create a trigger for me to stop staring at the screen and close the day properly. Staying at my computer keeps my mind active and doesn’t let it relax. The second reason is to improve performance by closing apps that aren’t needed. My work laptop is a beast, but it still quite noticeabl....
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The Atari days When it came to video games growing up, my parents were fairly progressive – although they had no desire to play them, they didn’t see them as anything but fun and somewhat educational. And in the early 80s, when home game consoles were all the rage, my parents bought us an Atari 2600 (the all-black “Darth Vader” model shown to the right) and some games. We lived in a big old house, and there was a very large, unused room..
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The Atari days When it came to video games growing up, my parents were fairly progressive – although they had no desire to play them, they didn’t see them as anything but fun and somewhat educational. And in the early 80s, when home game consoles were all the rage, my parents bought us an Atari 2600 (the all-black “Darth Vader” model shown to the right) and some games. We lived in a big old house, and there was a very large, unused room..
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One of the best things in running an open source project is the high quality issues, we don’t always respond immediately and sometimes things get lost under our piles of work but we do appreciate the time you take to file issues. We’d like to define some guidelines for issue submission, this will make our job easier in processing/assigning & resolving issues as soon as possible. We don’t want this post to deter you from submitting a..
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Ten years ago we moved to Lebanon. There was a culture clash. In this post I'll explain why some locals go on destructive paths. We all know generalizations have the nasty effect of activating justice warriors. My intention is not to trigger rage, generalizations are what they are, a resonance of the state of mind *we* are living in. While everyone is not going to read this post and take value out of it I still wish for it to be a wake ..
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Introducing yakbak: Record and playback HTTP interactions in NodeJS
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Did you know that the new Front End of www.flickr.com is one big Flickr API client? Writing a client for an existing API or service can be a lot of fun, but decoupling and testing that client can be quite … Continue reading →
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Introducing yakbak: Record and playback HTTP interactions in NodeJS
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code.flickr.net
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10 years ago
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Did you know that the new Front End of www.flickr.com is one big Flickr API client? Writing a client for an existing API or service can be a lot of fun, but decoupling and testing that client can be quite … Continue reading →
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I have a GNU/Linux server which I mount a few LUKS encrypted drives on. I only ever interact with the server over SSH, and I never want to keep the LUKS credentials on the remote server. I don’t have anything especially sensitive on the drives, but I think it’s a good security practice to encrypt it all , if only to add noise into the system and for solidarity with those who harbour much more sensitive data.
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I have a GNU/Linux server which I mount a few LUKS encrypted drives on. I only ever interact with the server over SSH, and I never want to keep the LUKS credentials on the remote server. I don’t have anything especially sensitive on the drives, but I think it’s a good security practice to encrypt it all , if only to add noise into the system and for solidarity with those who harbour much more sensitive data.
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At Thoughtworks, we are constantly looking for talented workers to continue building world-class software and serving our clients. A child of an immigrant founded Thoughtworks more than 20 years ago and we believe that immigrants have had a huge role to play in our growth.
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Today we are going into code freeze for Codename One 3.4 which is due one week from now, because of the fast release cycle we don’t need more than a week of code freeze to stabilize our current release. The code freeze applies only to the Codename One libraries and ports as those are the parts that will be inherent to the release. How does the Code Freeze Work? The pieces of Codename One that are frozen are effectively the entire gi..
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With the latest version of the Android port we fixed a long running bug in gradient drawing on Android. Gradients should now work correctly and will also be performant potentially even faster than images on Android. Our standing recommendation is to avoid gradients as they pose a memory/performance penalty on most platforms and so this change raises the question of using gradients back into the forefront. We gave this some..
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It might be good to feel bored. The bored mind is seeking. Now, there is a difference between bored and distracted. The distracted mind feels overwhelmed. When I am distracted, there are too many stimuli. I might get distracted by my phone or think about the movie I watched last night. Being distracted means that I’ve surrendered control of my thoughts to external prompts. I might have decided to dedicate my time to certain activity, but....
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The jat app is very similar to whatsapp in some regards but is more oriented towards group communication than SMS replacement. Over the past couple of weeks we picked it up as a great communication tool in our team. It uses push notifications to notify and activates accounts via SMS. This makes it very convenient for someone like myself who moves between devices constantly. Chat is a very common use case for developers in the Codena..
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A quick collection of all the fake Orly book covers I find around on the internet. I am seriously considering writing content for the “Expert Excuses for Not Writing Unit Tests” one. EDIT - I actually did write content and publish it as a book! Expert Excuses for Not Writing Unit Tests
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EDIT : This article was first posted in 2016. As of 2019 I still have to use Windows at work, but now I just use WSL with wsltty. At work I have to use Windows as operating system on my workstation, even though I manage almost only linux servers. There are dozens of ways to connect from Windows via SSH to a linux server and I will tell you my way. I started (of course) with PuTTY , the unarguably most famous ssh client for window....
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D3 is great at data visualizations, but it manipulates the DOM directly to display that data. Rendering DOM elements is where React shines. It uses a virtual representation of the DOM (virtual DOM) and a super performant diffing algorithm in order to determine the fastest way to update the DOM. We want to leverage React’s highly efficient, declarative, and reusable components with D3’s data utility functions. At this point, we can safely....
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To start things off, let me state my position. This house proposes that because HTML and CSS are the language of the web, it is mandatory for anyone who wishes…
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This week felt slow as we were going thru it but as I was preparing this installment I was reminded just how much activity we had in stackoverflow this week. Codenameone : Alternative to webBrowsers This question was triggered by the desire for dynamic rich UI elements coupled with concern about an issue with the web browser component. It turns out that we just fixed that specific issue as we are moving into the final stretch before..
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Snyk now provides a free service that lets anyone test for vulnerabilities in – and then monitor – any public Node.js GitHub repository.
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Epsg.io was successfully updated with latest EPSG database 8.9. We are happy to announce these new features.
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Plenty of people are talking about how organisations should capitalise on design, yet few are talking about the practicalities of what it looks like to actually deliver it. Pairing developers and designers removes the natural suspicion between them, is fun, easy, and presents value to customers faster, making businesses—and teams—happier.
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As part of our continuing effort to squash bugs for the 3.4 release date we hit two major issues, the first of which is a long time RFE to fix PDF viewing on iOS & Android to work consistently . This also applies to any file opening in iOS/Android which should now be trivial with the Display.execute method. Just use that method on any file within your home directory in FileSystemStorage and it should launch the native app to view..
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Lately I've been exploring the world of Clojure. I'm not sure whether it was the siren song of functional programming that started driving me, the simplicity of Lisp, or my curiosity about this language that was being promoted by the likes of Uncle Bob. Whatever the cause, I needed to explore this strange world head first. I needed to try out this language for myself. I spent much of time just dipping my toes in and writing little toy progr..
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Have you registered for a new user account in an app before? How about adding your payment info for buying something online? Those are two examples of what a “workflow” can be. Workflows are usually associated with a set of screens that appear in different orders depending on what the user selects. For example, registering with Facebook vs. email can change the sequence and number of screens presented to the user. We will demonstrate how st....
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As part of the bug fixes for the 3.4 release we fixed issue #1725 which was surprisingly difficult to fix… As part of that fix we also added a new method to TextArea by the name of setActAsLabel which we now implicitly call in the SpanLabel & SpanButton classes. So why do we need that and why not just use the text area as it is? There are two basic challenges in multiline strings, the first is related to the way layout managers w..
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