Gtmetrix

AUGUST 2, 2017

If you’ve used any of these tools, you may wonder why the results are sometimes different. The post serves to highlight the key differences in these performance analysis tools.

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The Polyglot Developer

JULY 31, 2017

When developing mobile applications, there is often a need to perform certain tasks when a network connection is available. Not only this, but sometimes you only want to perform tasks depending on the type of network connection. For example, what if you wanted to backup large photos only when the Android or iOS device is connected to WiFi rather than 3G or 4G?

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2017

Every day, millions of people buy expensive things they don't know much about: cars and residential homes, enterprise software and entire enterprises. Having a deep pocket - or investiture by people with deep pockets - is the only qualification required for an individual to have buying authority. As we saw previously, emotions have a share - often a disproportionate one at that - in buying decisions.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 30, 2017

I recently improved flame graph code coloring. If you're automating or implementing flame graphs, this is a small detail that may interest you. (For an intro to flame graphs, see my [website] and [github].) First, a confession. Code-type coloring was a regex hack that took five minutes. In late 2014 I was modifying the JDK to preserve the frame pointer so that traditional stack walkers and profilers would work (an example of the problem is here , where Java methods lack ancestry).

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Professor Beekums

JULY 30, 2017

Developers often try to minimize the amount of technical debt they take on when building software. Many will even try to have “zero” technical debt. It sounds like a worthwhile goal. Technical debt can be extremely costly in the long term so getting rid of it can be extremely advantageous down the line. It isn’t possible to have zero technical debt though.

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The Polyglot Developer

AUGUST 2, 2017

I am pleased to announce that the latest episode of The Polyglot Developer Podcast is now available to download from all the popular podcasting networks. In this episode titled, Authorizing Access with OAuth , I’m joined by Ryan Chenkie from Auth0 to talk about OAuth and how it can be used to authorize access to your data by third-party applications.

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