Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

If you want to improve performance, you must start by measuring performance. But what should you measure? Across the performance industry, the metric that's used the most is "page load time" (i.e, "window.onload" or "document complete"). Page load time was pretty good at approximating the user experience in the days of Web 1.0 when pages were simpler and each user action loaded a new web page (multi-page websites).

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Metrics Website Innovation Speed 72

The Polyglot Developer

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

I was at an event not too long ago where someone recommended I take a look at PassportJS for my Node.js applications. In case you’re unfamiliar with PassportJS, it is an authentication middleware that makes it easy to work with logins, whether they are with basic login, or with social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter. Being that I’m into different authentication techniques, as seen in my other oauth articles , I figured it wouldn’t be a bad idea to do a walkthrough on PassportJS with

Social Media 60

Social Media Media Development 60

The Polyglot Developer

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Recently I started fiddling with NativeScript from Telerik because I’ve been hearing a lot about it when I attend various developer conferences. If you’re unfamiliar with NativeScript, it is a cross platform mobile development framework similar to Ionic Framework and React Native. The difference being that NativeScript claims to map your UX to native layouts and give you full access to all device APIs.

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Mobile Development 52