All Things Distributed
MARCH 6, 2015
'Grapevine was one of the first systems designed to be fully distributed. It was built at the famous Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) Computer Science Laboratory as an exercise in discovering what is needed as the fundamental building blocks of a distributed system; messaging, naming, discovery, location, routing, authentication, encryption, replication, etc.
The Polyglot Developer
MARCH 1, 2015
Since writing my two tutorials regarding using SQLite in Ionic Framework and shipping an app with a pre-populated database , I’ve received many requests for a tutorial for making a full blown app. I listen to my readers, so I figured what better way to show such an example, than to create a todo-list type application. In this tutorial, I hope to accomplish the following: Shipping a pre-populated / pre-filled SQLite database.
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The Agile Manager
FEBRUARY 28, 2015
A few years ago, I felt I had enough experience - and had put enough thought into the subject - to write a book on governance in software development. I had observed that most tech firms and captive IT organizations are largely left to self-govern, and both are pretty light touch about it. I had also observed that governance is widely misunderstood and the term is used in technology in a lot of different ways, almost universally incorrectly.
The Polyglot Developer
MARCH 4, 2015
The Node Package Manager (NPM), is becoming a major go-to resource for all development software and libraries. It is easy to use and covers a lot of ground. If you’re anything like me you’re going to have more than twenty global packages installed on your machine through NPM, but how do you go about tracking whether or not any of them have become outdated?
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