Tag: Software Development

Programmer’s Proverbs: A Github repo with wisdom about life gleaned from programming

https://github.com/AntJanus/programmers-proverbs

From the website:

Programming and development often teaches one wisdom that cannot be attained elsewhere. Coding and programming, as some have said, is a way of life, not just job. When you are a coder, that is a big part of who you are at work and outside of work. So, let’s come together, and put down our wisdom for future generations to see and learn from.

Servers for Hackers: Newsletter with server management tips for programmers

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http://serversforhackers.com/

From the signup page:

At some point, every programmer finds themselves needing to know their way around a server.
Servers for Hackers is a newsletter for those times.

This newsletter will cover things like user management and permissions, firewalls, LAMP stacks, apache, nginx, load balancers, proxies, nodejs, ruby, python, php, search engines, automating processes, handling log files, git, deployment, sql, nosql, development environments, provisioning, the list can go on forever!

Link: What every web developer must know about URL encoding

http://blog.lunatech.com/2009/02/03/what-every-web-developer-must-know-about-url-encoding

This article describes common misconceptions about Uniform Resource Locator (URL) encoding, then attempts to clarify URL encoding for HTTP, before presenting frequent problems and their solutions. While this article is not specific to any programming language, we illustrate the problems in Java) and finish by explaining how to fix URL encoding problems in Java, and in a web application at several levels.

RoboVM: Create native iOS apps in Java

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From the RoboVM website:

Java bytecode to native
RoboVM translates Java bytecode into native ARM or x86 code. Apps run fast
directly on the CPU. No interpreter involved.

Native API and hardware access
RoboVM includes a Java to Objective-C bridge that makes it possible to call
into the native iOS CocoaTouch APIs. Objective-C objects can be used just like
any other Java object.

Code reuse
Easily share code between desktop, Android and iOS apps. The standard classes
(java.lang.*, java.util.*, etc) included in RoboVM are based on Android’s
runtime.

Open-source
The compile time tools are GPLv2 licensed. Runtime code is licensed under
business friendly licenses, mostly the Apache License v2.0.

Familiar tools
RoboVM comes with Eclipse and Maven integration. Use the tools you’re used to
from the Java world.

Article: Microservices, by Martin Fowler and James Lewis

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Article about Microservices from a couple of Thoughtworks guys.

From the article:

In short, the microservice architectural style is an approach to developing a
single application as a suite of small services, each running in its own
process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms, often an HTTP resource
API. These services are built around business capabilities and independently
deployable by fully automated deployment machinery. There is a bare mininum of
centralized management of these services, which may be written in different
programming languages and use different data storage technologies.

libgit2: portable Git library written in C with bindings for over 20 languages & platforms

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libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing you to
write native speed custom Git applications in any language which supports C bindings.

  • 100% Cross-Platform: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, iOS, Amiga, MinGW and fully native Windows.
  • Zero Dependencies: Builds out of the box with no dependencies. Works in embedded devices and iOS.
  • ANSI C89: Written with portability in mind. Builds in GCC, Clang and MSVC.
  • Permissive Licensing: GPLv2 with Linking Exception. Link with open and proprietary software, no strings attached.

The complete list of language bindings is here on the Github page.