Tim Kadlec

MAY 14, 2015

Facebook just announced a new feature they’re calling “Instant Articles”. Facebook is positioning this as a way for publishers to have their stories displayed, within Facebook, “instantly”: Mobile web articles can take an average of eight seconds to load, by far one of the slowest parts of the Facebook app. Instant Articles provides a faster and richer reading experience for people in News Feed.

Performance 56

Performance Website Energy Mobile 56

The Polyglot Developer

MAY 15, 2015

There are many ways to create mobile Android games. For example you can use a framework like Unity3D or Unreal Engine, or you can use native APIs like the SurfaceView canvas or OpenGL. All the different methods have their pros and cons. In this particular example we’re going to see how to render graphics to the Android screen by extending the SurfaceView class and a canvas.

Games 40

Games Mobile Engineering Development 40

The Polyglot Developer

MAY 13, 2015

Back in 2010 I was hired by the University of California, Merced (UC Merced) after having first worked as a student employee for two years prior. I was hired as part of the Student Information Systems (SIS) team of IT. Although my responsibilities spanned across all departments, I primarily supported the needs of the Undergraduate Admissions department.

Java 40

Java Programming Design Systems 40

The Polyglot Developer

MAY 12, 2015

Recently one of my Twitter followers asked me how they might validate password strength using regular expressions (RegEx) in their code. Regular expressions via Wikipedia : A sequence of characters that forms a search pattern, mainly for use in pattern matching with strings, or string matching. RegEx is nice because you can accomplish a whole lot with very little.

Testing 40

Testing Code Development 40