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Programming Microcontrollers with JavaScript -- Q&A with Peter Hoddie and Lizzie Prader
JavaScript developers can now write IoT software on a large range of devices, including low-specs micro-controllers with as little as 32KB of memory. As the TC53 committee and companies like Moddable create standards and software for the interoperability of heterogeneous hardware, IoT companies may tap in a large pool of JavaScript developers, and leverage the productivity of a scripting language.
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Don’t Mix the Paint! Primitives and Composites in the World of Software
Because software is created from synthetic primitives (code, interfaces, requirements, etc.), engineers must accept that assumptions are often wrong, and adopt a mindset of challenging everything. Creating a system that continually tests the assumptions can help actualize the mindset.
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Deno Loves WebAssembly
The much anticipated Deno project has finally reached v1.0! Deno is created by the original developer of Node.js, Ryan Dahl, to address what he called “10 things I regret about Node.js”. Without an NPM-like system to incorporate native modules, how do we write server-side applications that require native performance on Deno? WebAssembly is here to help!
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How Microfrontends Can Help to Focus on Business Needs
Microfrontends can help to focus on functional requirements and business needs, thereby simplifying the development process. Adopting this approach requires new processes and tools, and benefits from a platform to simplify repetitive tasks.
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Elm in Action - Book Review and Q&A with Richard Feldman
The book Elm in Action by Richard Feldman provides a gentle, thorough introduction to Elm for web developers, and walks them through the creation of a full-featured photo-browsing application. Elm is a purely functional language for creating web applications. Elm touts the absence of runtime errors, a sound type system with strong type inference and delightful developer experience.
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PHP 7 — New Features for Types
In the previous two articles in this series, we explored some of the improvements introduced in PHP 7. To set the background for this article on PHP’s type system, PHP is a weakly typed language, which implies the data type of variables does not need to be declared. In this article we explore new type-related features available in PHP 7.x.
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Developing a Cloud Migration Framework
Creating a Cloud Migration Framework gives you a tool for management, accountability, and status reporting. This article looks at three common phases of the migration.
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Project Helidon Tutorial: Building Microservices with Oracle’s Lightweight Java Framework
Oracle introduced its new open-source framework, Helidon, in September 2018. Originally named Java for Cloud, Helidon is a collection of Java libraries for creating microservices-based applications. Within six months of its introduction, Helidon 1.0 was released in February 2019. The current stable release is Helidon 1.4.4, but Oracle is well on their way to releasing Helidon 2.0.
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PHP 7 — Classes and Interfaces Improvements
In the second instalment of this article series dedicated to PHP 7, we continue our exploration of PHP 7 new features focusing on object-oriented programming support, classes, and interfaces.
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Five Reasons to Start Working in the Cloud
Whether self-hosted or managed, this article is going to cover five reasons why a cloud IDE may be precisely what you or your company needs to boost productivity to the next level.
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Learning Progressive Web Apps - Book Review and Q&A
The book *Learning Progressive Web Apps* presents a gentle but thorough introduction to PWAs through the implementation of three PWAs. The book focuses on web manifests and service workers. The reader needs only know HTML, JavaScript and CSS to follow through the examples.
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Java Feature Spotlight: Sealed Classes
The release of Java SE 15 in Sept 2020 will introduce "sealed classes" (JEP 360) as a preview feature. A sealed class is a class or interface which restricts which other classes or interfaces may extend it. Sealed classes, like enums, capture alternatives in domain models, allowing programmers and compilers to reason about exhaustiveness.