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Detecting and Analyzing Redundant Code

As software development projects grow in scope, it is very easy for them to add redundant layers of code. By analyzing several large open source projects on GitHub, the author presents his findings as to the amount of redundant code each project has and shares some recommendations as to how all projects can improve their own code management.

Zebedee Mason
on Oct 02, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on "The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide"

The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide answers questions that new and experienced developers often have in advancing their careers. Topics covered vary from learning technical skills, getting a job, and dealing with managers, to doing side projects or starting your own company.

Ben Linders
on Oct 01, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book "Humans vs Computers"

Author Gojko Adzic has released a book, Humans vs Computers, in which he tells stories about the impact of inflexible automation, edge cases and software bugs on the lives of real people. He explains the common mistakes built into the systems and provides advice on how to prevent these mistakes from being built into our systems in the first place.

Shane Hastie
on Sep 20, 2017
Culture & Methods

Is TDD a Form of OCD?

Developers are increasingly testing their own and each other's code. "Evaluation anxiety" is common psychological condition that is directly impacted by self-testing and team-testing. Are practices like TDD a defense mechanism to protect coders from criticism? And do emerging methods like Behavior Driven Development represents a more emotionally healthy approach to team evaluation?

Gilad David Maayan
on Sep 15, 2017
Web Development

3 Easy Solutions to Optimize Images on the Fly

When pages are slow to load, images are frequently the culprit. The megabyte size of web pages is steadily growing, and images are by far the largest component. In this article, Gilad David Maayan shows how image optimization can be achieved easily and automatically with a few lines of code, using three different cloud services, dramatically improve page load times and bandwidth usage.

Gilad David Maayan
on Sep 05, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Working with Coders

The book Working with Coders is a practical guide to managing teams of software developers aimed at a non-technical audience. In the book, Patrick Gleeson explores how the software development process works and what managers can do to support it effectively and build solid working relationships with coders.

Ben Linders
on Sep 04, 2017
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Video Stream Analytics Using OpenCV, Kafka and Spark Technologies

What is the role of video streaming data analytics in data science space. Learn how to implement a motion detection use case using a sample application based on OpenCV, Kafka and Spark Technologies.

Amit Baghel
on Sep 02, 2017
Java

Cost Reduction Strategies on Java Cloud Hosting Services

On the fly, automatic vertical scaling can lower the cost of exceeding VM limits, and gives flexibility in resource allocation. In this article we will cover techniques for determining whether automatic vertical scaling can help, and how to get it configured for your project.

Ruslan Synytsky
on Aug 29, 2017
Java

Automated Journey Testing with Cascade

Starting with a brief history of software testing, we investigate Cascade, a new framework for testing “journeys”, eliminating overlapping coverage to produce fast unit tests.

Robin de Villiers
on Aug 15, 2017
Development

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2017

The sixth annual QCon New York was the biggest yet, bringing together over 1,100 team leads, architects, project managers, and engineering directors - up from last year's record of 940. It was also the first to take place in our new home in Times Square.

Abel Avram
on Aug 08, 2017
Mobile

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.

Anastasia Yaskevich
on Jul 25, 2017
Web Development

Four Tips for Working with Angular Components

If you're a beginner to Angular, you'll quickly find that components are some of the core building blocks of an Angular application. Regardless of what flavor of Angular you're working with, be it AngularJS or Angular 2+, learning to use components well is critical. In this article, Jonathan Saring offers four tips on working with Angular components.

Jonathan Saring
on Jul 21, 2017

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