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Ultimate Guide to the Processing Language Part I: The Fundamentals
Rapid prototyping and the ability to produce quick visual results are features of many programming languages and frameworks. However, some take it even further by making these their primary goals. Processing, a programming language based on Java, allows its users to code within the context of visual arts and has been designed from the ground up to provide instant visual feedback. In this article, Toptal engineer Oguz Gelal provides a gentle introduction to Processing and some insights into its inner mechanics.
Oguz Gelal
Oguz is a software engineer and full-stack web developer. He has worked with a number of frameworks and tools, fron- and back-end.
Open Source: It’s Not That Scary!
Is open source scary? Do developers think that nobody would be interested in their personal projects? What are the fears associated with publishing your own work for the public to see? In this article, Toptal Director of Engineering Anna Chiara Bellini shares how, as an accomplished engineer, she made her first contribution to GitHub. This guide features all the step-by-step basics to getting involved in open source, including everything from what open source software is, to how to start working with Git and GitHub, to actually making meaningful contributions to open source projects.
Anna-Chiara Bellini
When Anna started coding at a young age. Since then, her career has spanned many different projects and programming technologies.
What Is Bootstrap? Effortless Responsive Sites With Bootstrap Web Development
You’ve heard of Bootstrap, but what is Bootstrap, exactly? A powerful collection of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript tools, it makes responsive web development easy. Get started with the basics of Bootstrap.
Tomislav Bacinger
Tomislav (MSc) has spent more than 15 years in full-stack development and data analysis, but geospatial visualizations are his favorite.
How to Use Rails Helpers: A Bootstrap Carousel Demonstration
One of the most misused, misunderstood, and neglected of all the Rails built-in structures is the view helper. Helpers often get a bad reputation for being a dumping ground for one-off methods used across the entire application’s view layer. But what if your helpers could be more semantic, better organized, and even reusable across projects? What if they could be more than just one-off functions sprinkled throughout the view, but powerful methods that generated complex markup with ease leaving your views free of conditional logic and code?
Let’s see how to do this when building an image carousel, with the familiar Twitter Bootstrap framework and some good old-fashioned object-oriented programming.
Carlos Ramirez III
Carlos is a professional software engineer specializing in the Ruby on Rails framework. He has worked with US tech companies for years.
Speeding up Application Development With Bootstrap
Bootstrap, one of the most used HTML/CSS/JavaScript front-end frameworks, offers a little more than just fancy customizable user interface elements. It provides a great starting point for many types of projects, a plethora of components, and many nifty styles predefined for responsive layout and utility classes to help keep your HTML and CSS code clean.
In this article, Toptal designer Lijana Saniukaite walks us through some practical Bootstrap tips and best practices to speed up your application development.
Lijana Saniukaite
Lijana has 11+ years leveraging her skills in full-stack web/mobile development, QA, project management, entreprenueurship, and design, too.
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The GWT Toolkit: Build Powerful JavaScript Front Ends Using Java
The GWT Web Toolkit, formerly known as Google Web Toolkit, is a set of development tools for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications using the Java programming language. What makes GWT not “yet another Java tool to write web apps,” is the fact that the heart of the toolkit is a compiler that converts Java into JavaScript, enabling developers to write front-end web applications while leveraging all of Java’s strengths.
Alberto Mancini
Dr Alberto spent 20 years working as a researcher in Applied Math & is experienced in managing large computational infrastructures.
Towards Updatable D3.js Charts
When Mike Bostock created D3.js, he introduced a tried and true reusable charts pattern for implementing the same chart in any number of selections. However, the limitations of this pattern are realized once the chart is initialized. In this article, Toptal engineer Rob Moore presents a revised reusable charts pattern that leverages the full power of D3.js.
Rob Moore
where he tries to bring to the web development the experiences got in the field of HPC and (Big) Data Processing.
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