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Why I Switched from AngularJS to React
This article provides the overview of pain points caused by AngularJS and reasons for switching to React.
Kumar Sanket
Kumar is a top developer with expertise in developing web applications as well as an experienced team manager and UX designer.
Building Modern Web Applications with AngularJS and Play Framework
Building robust web applications is often a lot about choosing the right tools. Doing so with a combination of tools that ensure both a modern, flexible front-end, and a solid, reliable back-end is something everybody wants. This article demonstrates exactly that trick by combining AngularJS and Play Framework to build a simple blog application.
Denys Sinyakov
Denys (MSc) is a seasoned software scalability engineer, project manager, and entrepreneur with 12+ years of experience. Java is his focus.
Brace Yourselves Android Developers, A New Android Compiler Is Coming
With Dalvik out of the picture, many people expected Google’s new 64-bit capable ART runtime to stick around for years, which it probably will, but it will get a major overhaul in the near future. In addition to offering support for 64-bit hardware, ART also introduced ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation, while Dalvik was a just-in-time (JIT) compiler.
Throw in new 10-core ARM processors and Intel mobile processors based on three different architectures, and you end up with spicy, Google-style hardware gumbo.
Nermin Hajdarbegovic
As a veteran tech writer, Nermin helped create online publications covering everything from the semiconductor industry to cryptocurrency.
Deploy Web Applications Automatically Using GitHub Webhooks
Deploying instances of a web application to one or more servers manually can often be a monotonous process, and take up a significant amount of your time. With little effort, it is possible to automate the process of deploying your web application with almost zero human intervention. This article outlines a simple approach to automating web application deployments using GitHub webhooks, buildpacks, and Procfiles.
Mahmud Ridwan
Mahmud is a software developer with many years of experience and a knack for efficiency, scalability, and stable solutions.
Video Game Physics Tutorial - Part III: Constrained Rigid Body Simulation
In Part I of this three-part series, we saw how the free motion of rigid bodies can be simulated. In Part II, we saw how to make bodies aware of each other through collision and proximity tests. Up to this point, however, we still have not seen how to make objects truly interact with each other. The final step to simulating realistic, solid objects, is to apply constraints, defining restrictions on the motion of rigid bodies.
In this article, we’ll discuss equality constraints and inequality constraints. We’ll describe them first in terms of a force-based approach, where corrective forces are computed, and then in terms of an impulse-based approach, where corrective velocities are computed instead. Finally, we’ll go over some clever tricks to eliminate unnecessary work and speed up computation.
Nilson Souto
Nilson (dual BCS/BScTech) been an iOS dev and 2D/3D artist for 8+ years, focusing on physics and vehicle simulations, games, and graphics.
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Data Mining for Predictive Social Network Analysis
Analysts have come to recognize social network data as a virtual treasure trove of information for sensing public opinion trends and groundswells of support. In this article, Toptal Engineer Elder Santos describes the techniques he employed for a proof-of-concept that effectively analyzed Twitter Trend Topics to predict, as a sample test case, regional voting patterns in the 2014 Brazilian presidential election.
Elder Santos
Elder specializes in machine learning and data science. He has expertise in the full life cycle of the software design process.
Power Efficient Home Offices Can Save Money And Polar Bears
Most of us work from home offices, so we use cheaper household electricity and enjoy better prices than businesses in many parts of the world. Since we don’t commute or drive to work each morning, we already save a bit of money and reduce our carbon footprint. However, there is always room for improvement.
Nermin Hajdarbegovic
As a veteran tech writer, Nermin helped create online publications covering everything from the semiconductor industry to cryptocurrency.
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