The Polyglot Developer

AUGUST 17, 2015

When developing mobile Android and iOS applications, the user experience is often more important than what your application actually offers. A quick and very easy enhancement you can implement in your application is in the realm of form validation. Best practice says that you should always validate user inputted data via the back-end and I agree. However, by validating via the front-end as well, it can make improvements to your user experience.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Mobile Development 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. The importance of relationships. Relationships are a fundamental aspect of both the physical and virtual worlds.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

Alex Russell

AUGUST 20, 2015

Cross-posted at Medium. This post is about vendor prefixes, why they didn’t work, and why it’s toxic not to be able to launch experimental features. Also, what to do about it. Vendor prefixes are a very sore topic , and one where I’ve disagreed with the overwhelming consensus. In the heat of the ‘11–12 debate (“prefixpocalypse”) I tried to outline a hierarchy of the web platform needs: Meeting developer & user experience needs with new features.

Programming 54

Programming Google Infrastructure Engineering 54