So you’re ready to learn a new programming language? You might be entirely new to the world of application development, in that case, welcome! Or you’ve might have been creating applications for years, but now you feel you’re ready for something new. Picking a programming language can be a daunting task. There are an enormous [...]
In recent times, there have been a number most interesting Vaadin developments. In this post I’ve picked out 3 that you shouldn’t miss if you’re at all interested in developing cross-browser web applications in a high-level framework. Even if you thought Vaadin was not for you, it might be the time to reevaluate your options.
The Cyclomatic Complexity Number of your program is a very rough measurement of how many paths can be taken through your source code. It can be calculated fully automatically. While it is far from perfect, it will give you an idea of how complex your program is. More importantly, it can also be used as [...]
If you’ve been following the developer community in 2010, you’ve probably heard the term NoSQL mentioned thousands of times. Maybe you’ve heard it mentioned so many times you’re sick of it and might have missed what it’s all about. And that would be a bad thing, NoSQL does in fact solve some hard problems and [...]
App Inventor opens up mobile Android development to the masses. Last summer, Google released App Inventor, a tool that lets you create Android applications without writing a single line of code. If you want to quickly get up to speed, try out the following resources.
If you’d like to write better blog post and in less time than you’re used to, we’ve got a web application for that. The interactive blog post idea generator helps you focus your thoughts and structure them in an understandable and clear way. It’s not a magic solution but it might help you when you’re [...]
“I found the shift from thinking in tests to thinking in behaviour so profound that I started to refer to TDD as BDD, or behaviour driven development.” – Dan North Jasmine is a BDD framework for JavaScript. It is similar to easyb, which I mentioned previously in my Eclipse plugins round-up. It does have a [...]
You can learn the HTML5 canvas and video tag today and prepare for the future of the web. The entire web is abuzz with HTML5 news and tutorials, there has never been a better time to learn HTML5. In this post, I present a first of many resources to get started.
Want to become a JavaScript ninja? Right now JavaScript is the one language that is universally supported on pretty much any platform imaginable. With HTML5 being the hype of the moment, the demand for good JavaScript programmers is going to explode.
Now that I got Google Analytics working for my application, I’m even more impressed by this little piece of software than I already was. Even with only a partially instrumented application, I’m already able to set up funnels, track conversions and see in which steps I lose customers. So it’s about time I studied the [...]