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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!
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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...
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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?
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Performance Test Survey
This survey hopes to gain useful statistics on the current standards and trends in performance testing.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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Angular Directive Selectors Can Do More Than You Think!
If you have ever created an Angular directive before, you probably used the brackets ([]) notation as a selector.
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The user experience of choosing the simplest possible words
Are you creating a “cross-channel conversational engine powered by machine-learning technology”, or simply “a chatbot that learns with the…
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Designing your life, animation handoff, CSS for forms — and more UX this week
We use logical thinking when designing the app we are working on, when deciding what to include (or not include) on the homepage, when discussing product priorities with our coworkers, when defending our design decisions. Still, sometimes we forget to apply those same principles to our own life.
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Atomic Design | Atomic Design by Brad Frost
Learn how to create and maintain digital design systems, allowing your team to roll out higher quality, more consistent UIs faster than ever before.
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What Are Service Workers and How They Help Improve Performance
What Are Service Workers and How They Help Improve Performance - KeyCDN - Service workers run in the background of a user's browser and help improve the user experience with things like offline support, push notifications, etc.
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When is the best time to send newsletters and emails?
Best Time to Send Email Backed By 14 Data-Driven Studies - Unsure what the best time to send email marketing newsletters might be? Dig into findings from 14 studies and improve your email open rates right now.
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Register for Webcraft Conf
for developers, by developers, dedicated to building better web software by improving our understanding, processes, practices and tools.
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Using 3D models with AR.js and A-Frame
AR.js is the perfect library to get started with Augmented Reality (AR) on the browser. Created by Jerome Etienne, its integration with A-Frame is what makes it extremely simple to integrate into any AR project.
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Basic Programming Principles Every Programmer Must Follow
Principles To Code By – DailyJS – Medium - How to solve problems, not just code.
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Tools that React Developers should know in 2019
The React Developer Tools You Should Know in 2019 – Hacker Noon - Reviewing useful tools and features to optimize your React workflow in 2019
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10 common security gotchas in Python and how to avoid them
Writing secure code is hard. When you learn a language, a module or a framework, you learn how it supposed to be used. When thinking about…
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Mastercard Bans Automatic Billing After Free Trials
Isn't it annoying when you sign up for a free trial and forget to cancel before the company starts billing you? Mastercard apparently thinks so, because it will no longer allow the practice on its accounts. The credit card company now requires merchants to get a cardholder's approval, via text or email, at the end of a trial before they start billing.
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Real World Example Apps written in various backend and frontend programming languages
"The mother of all demo apps" — See how the exact same Medium.com clone (called Conduit) is built with various frontend and backend programming languages. Yes, you can mix and match them, because they all adhere to the same API spec
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One step closer, Engineering student wins Aerotel scholarship and internship
Aerotel scholarship awardee for 2018-2020 Navion Plummer proudly displays the symbolic cheque representing funds that will cover his tuition and books for the remaining two years of his engineering degree programme at the University of Technology, Jamaica.
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Why Your Links Should Never Say "Click Here"
Why Your Links Should Never Say "Click Here". This is very bad for SEO. Google search engine bots, for example, are smart bots, which uses the title, alt and content of a link to determine its relevance and context in order to provide better search results. Therefore, this will harm your site, and the guys at Smashing Magazine gives more insights on how it might affect your users.
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A python module to parse the Open Graph Protocol
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Rich Link Preview
Preview your website for chat apps and social networks.
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New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering
Is Microsoft really becoming the new champion of OSS? After a major buyout, Github services are becoming more open, flexible and most importantly, free. What are your thoughts on Github offering unlimited free private repositories? How do you think it will impact Bitbucket, which only offers 5 free private repositories or Gitlab that has unlimited free private repos?
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5 ways to loop over DOM elements from querySelectorAll in JavaScript
There are a lot of ways to loop over a NodeList Object (List of DOM elements) that is returned by a querySelectorAll method! In this post I want to share 5 ways.
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7 of the hottest jobs for 2019
With the constant evolution that is digital technology - there is little wonder that some of the most in-demand jobs for 2019, according to recruiters and career site experts consulted by TechRepublic, are in the tech world. Here are seven of the hottest jobs for the new year.
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Laravel GitScrum - a Simple and Robust solution to manage your software development project
Laravel GitScrum is a free application developed specifically for agile teams to be more collaborative, self-organised and cross-functional. The aim is to help the development teams to use Git and Scrum for task management and development on a day-to-day process. GitScrum can be integrated with Github or Gitlab or Bitbucket. It comes with Product Backlog, Epics, User Story, Kanban and many features that will help your team to be more flexible and agile.
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