Uber Engineering

MAY 17, 2016

Our last article on Uber for Business (U4B) discussed implementing our ride profiles feature. Today, we want to share more insight into the kind of technical challenges we’re solving. Just because our mission is to improve businesses’ experiences doesn’t … The post How Uber for Business Engineering Verifies Your Ride in Real Time appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Engineering 111

Engineering Architecture 111

Nick Desaulniers

MAY 15, 2016

Recently, there some was some confusion between myself and a coworker over the definition of a “word.” I’m currently working on a blog post about data alignment and figured it would be good to clarify some things now, that we can refer to later. Having studied computer engineering and being quite fond of processor design, when I think of a “word,” I think of the number of bits wide a processor’s general purpose registers are (aka word size ).

Programming 60

Programming Games Cache Design 60

The Polyglot Developer

MAY 16, 2016

I’ve been building NativeScript applications for a while now using vanilla JavaScript and TypeScript. Even though NativeScript has been working with Angular for a while now, I’ve been holding off until it was more stable. Not stable from an Angular perspective, but more stable from a NativeScript and Angular perspective. A few weeks ago at the AngularJS conference, ng-conf , Telerik announced that NativeScript was in a more compatible state when it comes to Angular.

Mobile 52

Mobile Development 52

Professor Beekums

MAY 15, 2016

I’m a big believer in agile software development. One major part of that is being able to determine a team’s development velocity (a.k.a. how fast the team works) in a period of time. The naive approach is to use straight up time estimates. Task A will take me 4 hours, task B will take me 2 days, task C will take me 5 minutes, etc. Decades of late projects has served as empirical evidence that this does not work.

Software 45

Software Software Development C++ 45

O'Reilly Software

MAY 14, 2016

Recently, there some was some confusion between myself and a coworker over the definition of a “word.” I’m currently working on a blog post about data alignment and figured it would be good to clarify some things now, that we can refer to later. Having studied computer engineering and being quite fond of processor design, when I think of a “word,” I think of the number of bits wide a processor’s general purpose registers are (aka word size).

Engineering 40

Engineering Design 40

Professor Beekums

MAY 19, 2016

Throughout my career as a software engineer, many people have told me that learning to write code is difficult. I challenge this claim. The real difficulty lies in the fact that most people are taught computer science before they are taught to write code. By computer science, I mean fundamental concepts such as the number of bits in an integer or how various pieces of data are stored in memory.

Code 40

Code Software Engineering Engineering Software 40