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Can Cordova Fit Your Target Industry?
Cordova is an effective tool when in the right hands and when used for purposes it can cope with. This article discusses what app categories are the good, the bad, and the best for Cordova development.
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How to Make Different Types of JavaScript Lists? Four Examples with Webix
Sergey Laptick shows how to create web components to display data in the form of different types of lists using the Webix UI Library. From simple lists, to advanced, interactive lists, Laptick discusses the core concepts behind Webix lists and how to create your own, customized list implementations.
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Creating an HTML UI for Desktop .NET Applications
Developers are looking for ways to employ the richness of the Web UI in desktop applications. The common approach is to embed a browser component to render the HTML UI within the desktop app.
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Article Series: Getting a Handle on Data Science as a Software Developer
Software developers and managers are realizing that they need data science among their skills, to be able to tackle pressing problems. In this series, field experts provide guidance to help us navigate among the available data analysis options. They explore ways of understanding where data science is needed and where it’s not, and how to turn it into an asset.
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From Raw Data to Data Science: Adding Structure to Unstructured Data to Support Product Development
With unstructured database technologies like Cassandra, MongoDB and even JSON storage in Postgres, unstructured data has become remarkably easy to store and to process. Software and data engineers alike can succeed in a world (mostly) free from data modelling, which is no longer a prerequisite to collecting data or extracting value from it.
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Using vfsStream to Test File Uploads with Laravel
Testing of uploading files can be tricky, but with the right tools and the knowledge of a few tricks, the process can be more efficient and a lot less difficult. This article goes over creating an endpoint to upload a CSV file of users and testing that users in the CSV are displayed in the JSON response, as well as adding validation to ensure CSV files are the types of files being dealt with.
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Can Your Company Benefit from a Progressive Web App?
Progressive web apps is a new concept that bridges the gap between websites and mobile apps. They promise offline capabilities as well as improved speed and performance. In this article, Mark Pedersen reviews the benefits of progressive web apps and how your company can benefit from this emerging technology.
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Pros and Cons of Cross-Platform Mobile App Development
The world has gone mobile. One of the most challenging situations for app developers is whether to develop a native mobile app or go for cross-platform. This article discusses the pros and cons of cross-platform mobile app development.
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Using Templates to Transform Web Service Results into Markup
The HTTP-RPC open-source Java framework returns results in JSON by default, but can use the CTemplate system to respond with custom markup. In this article, Greg Brown shows how simple annotations can be used to automatically respond to a web service in any markup (HTML, XML, CSV, etc.).
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Four Benefits of Switching Your Contact Center Agent Software to WebRTC
Contact centers around the globe are running two sets of expensive software: CRM and Real-Time Communications. Tsahi Levent-Levi shows how, by integrating WebRTC, companies can become more flexible and save money. Using only a browser, with no additional software or plug-ins to install, call centers can distribute their work force around the globe.
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Full Stack Testing: Balancing Unit and End-to-End Tests
Full-stack testing can be a widespread and involved task. There are unit tests and end-to-end tests, but how do you know where to focus your efforts? In this article, David Copeland looks at the kinds of tests and how to balance the interplay between those tests and the overall software development effort.
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Will WebSocket survive HTTP/2?
HTTP/2 is poised to eliminate much of the waste that developers deal with. Multiplexed connections will eliminate the need to bundle JavaScript libraries together. But is HTTP/2 a panacea to all our problems? What about WebSocket? Allan Denis tells us what HTTP/2 is good at and debunks some myths about what it can do.