Professor Beekums

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Programmers want to write good code. It makes sense. Folks in every profession take pride in their work and want to make sure it is of the highest quality. High quality software includes many things, one of which is making code easy to modify/maintainable. Software is never really “done”. There are always new versions with new features which obviously means that there is more code written.

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Code Software Software 63

The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

In pretty much every mobile application that I’ve ever made, I’ve had a need to use some form of alert dialog. The problem with this is that standard alert dialogs are boring and can actually make your application less attractive. This is where Fancy Alerts come in. In NativeScript , there is a plugin called Fancy Alerts that can display visually appealing alerts with nice animations.

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Mobile Development 52

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I don’t get to Europe very often apart from ISO C++ standards meetings, but this spring I’ve been able to accept invitations for two English-language European events in the last week of April. If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there. Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm).

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Back when I had just started to learn NativeScript I had created a tutorial for using the native device clipboard for copying and pasting. The previous tutorial demonstrated this functionality in a vanilla JavaScript application. In an effort to clean up any loose ends, I figured it would be a good idea to convert this tutorial into an Angular equivalent.

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Development 40