Get funded as a open source contributor

Now developers who contribute to open source — whether through code, documentation, leadership, mentorship, design or beyond can join the waitlist on GitHub Sponsorship platform

Microsoft unveils Windows Terminal, a new command line app for Windows

For developers, developers, developers

Flutter is now multi-platform

Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop - Today marks an important milestone for the Flutter framework, as we expand our focus from mobile to incorporate a broader set of devices and form factors. At I/O, we’re releasing our first technical preview of Flutter for web, announcing that Flutter is powering Google’s smart display platform including the Google Home Hub, and delivering our first steps towards supporting desktop-class apps with Chrome OS.

Microsoft launches React Native for Windows

Microsoft launches React Native for Windows – TechCrunch - Microsoft today announced a new open-source project for React Native developers who want to target Windows. “React Native for Windows,” as the project is unsurprisingly called, is meant to be a new ‘performance-oriented’ implementation of React for Windows under the MIT Lice…

Python overtakes JavaScript as most queried language on Stack Overflow, new data shows

A new study from crowdsourced QA testers Global App Testing has explored developers’ biggest pain points, with Python dethroning JavaScript as Stack Overflow’s most questioned programming language.

Everything you need to know about OAuth2

OAuth.com - OAuth 2.0 Servers - OAuth 2.0 is the modern standard for securing access to APIs. Read on for a complete guide to building your own authorization server.

Building chat app with Flutter and Firebase

Hi all, in this article, we’ll try to build a chat app with Flutter and Firebase from scratch (include Firebase Auth, Google Sign-In, Cloud FireStore and Firebase Storage).

KingstOOn 3 crowns the ambitions of Kam Kam for best concept in the emerging animated content

The Adventures of Kam Kam – Space Explorer tells the tale of a headstrong little Jamaican girl who wants to become a space explorer and go where no one has ever gone before. According to the team's pitch document, Kam Kam's ‘boundless imagination propels her and Glow Juice – her favourite fishy squishy toy into the most 'intergalacticosmic' adventures’.

Best Laptops For Developers To Buy In 2019

Best Laptops For Developers To Buy In 2019 - April 2019 Best of Technobezz - It is a quite difficult task to choose the best laptops for developers. However, we have listed here the top 10 laptops for developers. so have a read.

Dockerize the multi-services application for local development

The handy local development containerization guide, with examples of the Amplifr project dockerization. Getting the services written in Ruby, Node.js, and Golang work together locally with docker networks.

StackOverflow Developer Survey Results 2019

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019 - Nearly 90,000 took this comprehensive, annual survey of people who code. Demographics. Most loved, dreaded and wanted technologies. Salary and careers.

Programming languages: Developers reveal most loved, most loathed, what pays best

Developer knowledge-sharing site Stack Overflow has released its 2019 annual developer survey, revealing the most popular programming languages and which languages are linked to the highest salaries worldwide and in the US.

The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks

Every developer should read this irrespective of their language used; as our software becomes increasingly complex and connected, the difficulty of achieving application security increases exponentially.

Which Country Has The Best Programming Language Programmer?

Programming Language is at the heart of every technological innovation. Therefore, a country with the best computer programmers can be considered technologically advanced in today's world.

Example Google Style Python Docstrings

The original Google Hangouts will start to disappear this October

Bye, Hangouts... hello, Hangouts Chat and Meet

Jamaica College Robotics Team Wins Prestigious Award at the FIRST Tech Challenge in New York

Jamaica College Robotics Team Wins Prestigious Award at the FIRST Tech Challenge in New York - Jamaicans.com - The 13-member Jamaica College Robotics Team put on their best Usain Bolt impression after winning the prestigious and coveted Inspire Award, the highest award, at the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Relic Recovery Challenge in New York City. The Inspire Award is the top award given to teams at the FTC Championship. It is given to …

The previous Software Development BootCamp was big a success!

Hear what others have to say and get ready for the next later on this month. It will only get better!

GDC19 keynote was jam-packed with announcements and jaw-dropping demos!

The Heretic, Megacity release, real-time ray tracing, and more news from GDC 2019 – Unity Blog - We kicked off GDC 2019 in the best way possible - with a keynote filled with major announcements, jaw-dropping demos, and appearances from some of the indu...

Serverless For Devops Teams

Serverless as a technology is no longer in its infancy. It has matured to a point where we can at least say it is in its lanky teenage…

Ten commandments of instrumentation, which focuses on "how will I know if my code breaks or doesn't work"

1. The only lens you should need for debugging your code is that of your own instrumentation. 2. Never let code into production unless you can answer the question: how will I know if this breaks or doesn't work?

Performance Test Survey

This survey hopes to gain useful statistics on the current standards and trends in performance testing.

Why You Should Take A Digital-First Approach To Branding

Brands now live and breathe in the digital age, adapting to a world that changes faster than celebrities' political agendas.

Docker cheatsheet

Docker Commands, Help & Tips

A not so short story about Docker, Python, JavaScript, Java, PHP and the purpose of the Jamaican Developers Community.

A not so short story about Docker, Python, JavaScript, Java, PHP and the purpose of the Jamaican… - Eight years ago, I began my journey as a Full Stack Developer with DevOps skills. In that said year, I attended the University of the West…

pre-commit, a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

Git hook scripts are useful for identifying simple issues before submission to code review. We run our hooks on every commit to automatically point out issues in code such as missing semicolons, trailing whitespace, and debug statements. By pointing these issues out before code review, this allows a code reviewer to focus on the architecture of a change while not wasting time with trivial style nitpicks.

Google Play Store now open for Progressive Web Apps

Chrome 72 for Android shipped the long-awaited Trusted Web Activity feature, which means we can now distribute PWAs in the Google Play Store! I played with the feature for a while, digging into the APIs and here you have a summary of what’s going on, what to expect and how to use it today.

Check out the 4 games developed in 2 days by Jamaican teams during #GlobalGameJam

This year, the theme of GlobalGameJam was "what does home mean to you". A small group of young people gathered at UWI Mona, Department of CARIMAC and developed Timmy's Mind; HIVE; Sphere and Squares; and Shipgate 20XX.

Build It And They Will Play

The evening on January 25, 2019, found a small group of young people gathered and initiating somewhat embarrassing activities in order to “break the ice”, ease the tension and form friendships. It was the kick-off event for Global Game Jam 2019, and the CARIMAC Annex 2 Building played host to the would-be jammers.

Using Twilio to Send SMS Texts via Python, Flask, and Ngrok

Python is great for many things. One thing, in particular, is hacking together code to develop and deploy simple web apps for particular…