How to Pick a Server for Your App The Mobile App Trends Series is supported by Sourcebits, a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates. For mobile app developers, building an app rarely takes place in a vacuum, as most users expect their apps to interface and work with various Internet services. Building a mobile app increasingly means building an app that can interface with its own server or set of network services. For mobile app developers, picking and choosing a server or cloud solution for things like storage, push notifications, user information and analytics can be a struggle. Fortunately, a new wave of companies and services are stepping in to help developers make the best choices. Yay Cloud With AWS, Amazon has really led the way toward making cloud services and distributed computing and storage solutions affordable and easily accessible. Cloud Backend Solutions
The developer tools you need to know right now When it comes to web development, it is pretty easy to assume that JavaScript is top dog. But, obviously it's not that simple. Imagine turning up for an interview and saying 'I'm great at JavaScript'. There's a few that spring immediately to mind, such as React and Angular. Skill Up 2017 Global tech publisher Packt recently released Skill Up 2017, its developer skills and salary report. The report is based on replies from over 4,700 respondents from across the globe. The big earners by role were big data engineers, security engineers and information architects Looking further into the report, what else did we learn? To put this into some kind of perspective, it wasn't web developers that topped the list. Docker, Angular and React More importantly, what tools were popular? Other notable tools included React, Jenkins, Sublime Text and PHP. But, as we have mentioned, it's not all about the money. We have only skimmed the surface here. Related articles:
Grid Designer 2 If you're familiar with the grid, a bit of design and basic typography, using this script should be pretty easy - most of the functions are pretty self-explanatory. If you're unfamiliar with grids in general, you could start by reading an excellent series of articles by web designer Mark Boulton. For those who want a real understanding of the theory of grids in relation to design and typography, I strongly recommend this book. On the Columns tab, you can start your design in two ways: Fill in the number of columns, total width, gutters and margin widths, all specified in pixels - then press the design button. The grid preview on the Columns tab will display the widths of each area, in pixels. Use the Typography tab to adjust and calculate basic typographic settings for your design. Finally, on the Export tab, you can generate copy-and-paste ready CSS, and a sample XHTML template.
Joel Aguero Hypertext Transfer Protocol The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.[1] HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. The standards development of HTTP was coordinated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), culminating in the publication of a series of Requests for Comments (RFCs). The first definition of HTTP/1.1, the version of HTTP in common use, occurred in RFC 2068 in 1997, although this was obsoleted by RFC 2616 in 1999. Technical overview[edit] URL beginning with the HTTP scheme and the WWW domain name label. A web browser is an example of a user agent (UA). HTTP is designed to permit intermediate network elements to improve or enable communications between clients and servers. HTTP is an application layer protocol designed within the framework of the Internet Protocol Suite. History[edit] The first documented version of HTTP was HTTP V0.9 (1991).
Designing for Multiple Screens Android powers hundreds of device types with several different screen sizes, ranging from small phones to large TV sets. Therefore, it’s important that you design your application to be compatible with all screen sizes so it’s available to as many users as possible. But being compatible with different device types is not enough. Each screen size offers different possibilities and challenges for user interaction, so in order to truly satisfy and impress your users, your application must go beyond merely supporting multiple screens: it must optimize the user experience for each screen configuration. This class shows you how to implement a user interface that's optimized for several screen configurations. The code in each lesson comes from a sample application that demonstrates best practices in optimizing for multiple screens. Note: This class and the associated sample use the support library in order to use the Fragment APIs on versions lower than Android 3.0. Lessons
Lighthouse | Tools for Web Developers | Google Developers Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. You can run it against any web page, public or requiring authentication. It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO and more. You can run Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, from the command line, or as a Node module. You give Lighthouse a URL to audit, it runs a series of audits against the page, and then it generates a report on how well the page did. You can also use Lighthouse CI to prevent regressions on your sites. Run Lighthouse In Chrome DevTools bug_report File an issue Check out the video below from Google I/O 2019 to learn more about how to use and contribute to Lighthouse. Get started Choose the Lighthouse workflow that suits you best: In Chrome DevTools. Run Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools Lighthouse powers the Audits panel of Chrome DevTools. Download Google Chrome for Desktop.In Google Chrome, go to the URL you want to audit. Install and run the Node command line tool
HTML5 Please - Use the new and shiny responsibly