Tim Kadlec

APRIL 28, 2015

On May 11th, I’ll be joining Akamai. I would be lying if I said it was an easy decision. I waffled a lot (For the sports enthusiasts out there, it’s not entirely unlike Favre and retirement. For the rest of you, insert some clever Waffle House pun here.). The past few years of working for myself have been amazing! I’ve gotten to work on some great projects with some great people and have had a ton of fun doing it.

Education 72

Education Traffic Performance Processing 72

The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 29, 2015

By now, if you’ve been keeping up with my tutorials, you can probably put two-and-two together and determine that I’m really trying to get into the NoSQL world. Up until now I’ve brushed upon Google Firebase, Facebook Parse , and Apache CouchDB , most of which I’ve done some kind of todo list type application. Now of course, many of my previous tutorials were based on hybrid app development instead of native.

Google 52

Google Mobile Development 52

Speed Curve

APRIL 28, 2015

The dramatic growth of mobile traffic has created an urgency for websites to adapt to different screen sizes. Responsive design is the preferred technique for making web content adapt to the device on which it's viewed. This approach ensures that the appropriate content is rendered in an appropriate way on phones, tables, laptops, and any other screen being used.

Design 40

Design Website Mobile Google 40

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2015

A few months ago, we took a look at the pathologies of matrixed organizations : no focus, amateur management, and people waging turf wars to secure power that they can exercise without consequence. The result is stationary organizational inertia, the portrait of a seized-up business. When non-executives enjoy power without responsibility, the corollary is that executives suffer responsibility without power.

Government 40

Government Media Technology Technology 40

The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 27, 2015

Circling back to data structures and algorithms, we’re now going to take a look at the efficient sorting algorithm known as Quicksort. Quicksort via Wikipedia : Sometimes called partition-exchange sort, is an efficient sorting algorithm, serving as a systematic method for placing the elements of an array in order. The idea behind Quicksort is to take a large array of values and divide it into two smaller arrays, doing this recursively, and swapping elements.

Java 40

Java Efficiency Engineering Development 40

The Polyglot Developer

MAY 1, 2015

So recently I was presented with a challenge. Make a Minesweeper game using native Android with no additional frameworks such as Unity3D or similar. Minesweeper via Wikipedia : A single-player puzzle video game. The objective of the game is to clear a rectangular board containing hidden “mines” without detonating any of them, with help from clues about the number of neighboring mines in each field.

Games 52

Games Development 52