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Avalara, a tax compliance automation business, has announced new developer tools and APIs that are intended to simplify development on the platform and increase developer engagement. This release includes new APIs for sales tax returns and e-invoicing, as well as a new low-code developer studio.
React is a component-based open-source JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It is used for handling the view layer in web and mobile applications, and it is great for building single-page web applications.
Some of the features of React are:
This is the fourth and final post in our series on how you, the developer, can build or improve your company’s notification system. It follows the first post about identifying user requirements, the second about designing with scalability and reliability in mind, and the third about setting up routing and preferences. In this piece, we will learn about using observability and analytics to set your system and company up for success.
Developing an application can often feel like you're building in the dark. Even after development, gathering and organizing performance data is invaluable for ongoing maintenance. This is where observability comes in—it’s the ability to monitor your application’s operation and understand what it’s doing. With close monitoring, observability is a superpower that allows developers to use various data points to foresee potential errors or outages and make informed decisions to prevent these from occurring.
If you’re a developer, or a developer team lead, this article offers you actionable insights from a research study conducted by McKinsey & Microsoft that delves into the relationship between Developer Velocity and fundamental business outcomes, such as revenue growth, operating margins, and how quickly a business can innovate.
Microsoft worked with McKinsey on this study to further our understanding of the critical role that developers play in the success of organizations around the world. As a company that deeply understands the impact of developers, we’re excited to share these results, and hope the findings will grab the attention of senior business leaders. Our message for them is simple: orienting your organization to prioritize and empower the success of developers is a decisive competitive advantage.
As I landed my first real job as a developer, Britney Spears had the song of the summer, Y2K bugs were about to throw the world into the dark ages, and everyone on my new team used the same tools to code, test, and deploy. As a fresh-out-of-college noob, I was thrown onto tools with steep learning curves resulting in low productivity rates. I thought it was the way it worked and I had to pay my dues to get comfortable with the system.
I have since come to understand that there are better processes. In the words of Britney, Oh baby, baby, how was I supposed to know that something wasn't right here?
Ubuntu Multipass is part of the Ubuntu ecosystem, but it works fine on other platforms and operating systems. It can be found at https://multipass.run. I use it daily during my development work. It has become an indispensable tool for keeping my workstation clean. It helps with the testing and deployment of my software.
Flame Wars Disclaimer
This article is not about cloud, deployment strategies, Kubernetes, helm, swarms, AWS vs Azure and alike. It's about using virtual machines to help software developer and devops engineer with daily work.
Earlier this week, Amazon hosted its annual Alexa Live 2021 developer event, which is intended to highlight all the new tools and resources available for developers working on the platform. The announcements included a new Food Skills API that is aimed at bolstering the food delivery market for restaurants.
Over the last year, we have witnessed a shift in engineering working habits. COVID-19 forced many of us into lockdown. Instead of working from the office, coffee shops, and airport lounges, I found myself mostly working out of my (hastily built) home office. For many of us, this meant shifting back to a workstation over a trusty laptop.
Not surprisingly, this did nothing to abate the heated discussion over which computers and operating systems are best for developing software. And so, in this final blog post of the series, you’ll get to learn a bit more about setting up your development machine.
You may have experienced the situation that an experienced team member, equipped with a large number of configured WinSCP sites, would like to share this information with a newbie team member (and all future newbies). A simple export & import will not suffice, since the configuration contains personalized authentication data (usernames and passwords, or keyfile locations). And you don’t want to force the newbie to manually copy-and-paste connection data and his own authentication data into a series of new WinSCP sites, as this would be inefficient, tedious, and error-prone.
Here is a quick overview of the solution to this problem. Details will be given in the sections below.
Double your open rate by using behavioral emails.
The best way of engaging your customers is to share content that resonates. And nothing resonates more than sending targeted emails to developers based on their own actions and behaviors.
In today’s world of fast-developing technology, people want access to data instantly. Waiting for a web page to load or an image to upload is no more an option. An application not designed aptly and flexible to handle increased workload and users—everything will be simply left in the dust.
Scalability is all about handling growth. A scalable web business should be able to efficiently and seamlessly adapt to the growth, handle an increase in load and users, without disturbing the end-users. A web application and website that is designed for scale will grow with the growing needs of the company. That’s why it is important to design a web business by keeping scalability in mind.
Over the last few years, we have seen an avalanche of tools to enable easier software development on Kubernetes (let’s face it, it is quite hard out of the box). As often happens in growing ecosystems, some tools grow and adapt, while others get left behind, or, at the very least, are merged into new offerings. What’s a better way to open 2021 than with an up-to-date review of the options we have?
In this blog series, I’ll go over the various developer tools for Kubernetes out there, their function within the development workflow, and, mostly, cover important news for each of them. For this post, I’ll focus on tools used to define our Kubernetes applications, namely: Helm, Kustomize, and Skaffold.
Great colors, a smooth scroll experience and lovely animations. Our pick this week.
Twitch, Playstation, Xbox, and other big players in the gaming industry face a treacherous future — but there is room for optimism.
The 5th edition of the JavaScript Rising Stars, the annual round-up of the JavaScript landscape.
An annual front-end performance checklist with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and front-end techniques.
In this article, Josh W Comeau explains how he uses a Spacer component to solve common layout problems, and why it’s often a great tool for the job in the modern web.
Luxury Hotel is a free, high-quality HTML template for hotels and holiday houses designed by Joefrey Mahusay.
Surma “fell into the rabbit hole that is monochrome image dithering” and shares everything he’s learned in this great article.
@react-three/a11y brings accessibility to WebGL, with easy to use components to enable focus indication, keyboard tab navigation, and screen reader support.
Create podcasts, videos, and transcripts easily with this new tool.
A great 3D game made by Hunor Márton Borbély.
The annual awards of the best in the web design industry. By Awwwards.
A Three.js Material which lets you do Texture Projection on a 3D Model. By Marco Fugaro.
Introducing the best websites of the web design community. Time to vote and choose the Autumn Fox 2020 seasonal award winner.
An interesting demo by Paul Henschel. Check out this tweet to learn more.
Part 2 in a series about ARIA grids by Sarah Higley.
A fantastic Three.js demo by ycw.
Christian Heilmann shows ways of testing a web site for accessibility issues using the browser Developer Tools.
A short tutorial on how to start with single div images by Albert Walicki.
The array.at(index) method in JavaScript accesses array items at positive and (finally!) at negative indexes.
A mobile-friendly pixel art and animation creation tool (PWA) built using HTML5 Canvas.
OpenScan is an open-source app that enables users to scan hard copies of documents or notes and convert it into a PDF file.
A coding session where you’ll learn how to create an infinite shape animation of a hyperbolic helicoid using Three.js.
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Application Development news during 2019 included some programming language preference choices, tools for easier creation, or even codeless creation of applications,
My name is Victor, I build https://storytime.dev/ as a side project and had a successful launch at Hacker News.
First of all, why build a Chrome extension?
With a Chrome extension, you can customize your browsing experience. Some popular Chrome extensions are StayFocused (the one that blocks out distracting websites) or AdBlock Plus (the one that blocks display ads).
We discussed .NET framework pros and cons. Now, let’s focus on .NET tools that assist in software development, code quality analysis, debugging, and other tasks.
To learn more about the most useful tools in .NET, we asked engineers from Microsoft, EPAM, AltexSoft, SocketLabs, and other tech firms to share which tools they consider the best.
Apple's WWDC keynote showed the company and it's polished best. The 2-hour, 15-minute extravaganza was heavy on user-facing updates to iOS for iPhones, watchOS for wearables, macOS for laptops and desktops, tvOS for Apple TV, and the brand new iPadOS for the iPad.