Easter and couple of days of free time is good for taking a break from the routines or finally have some time to develop your personal pet projects. At least my Highkara news reader for iOS needs some UI tests for screenshots and maybe I get to finish my imgur app for tvOS. But before that here’s the weekly notes.
This week we get overview to OWASP projects, see how Stack Overflow is built, learn to design for the Apple TV and get to run WebLogic on Docker container. Finally we discover how Spotify Discover Weekly playlists work.
Issue 7, 2016-03-24
Security
Quick developer’s guide to OWASP projects
Interesting poster-type developer’s guide to OWASP projects. Learn how to secure your web apps against common web vulnerabilities.
How it’s built
Stack Overflow: The Architecture – 2016 Edition
If you’re wondering how’s Stack Overflow built and what’s the load check this article. Interesting. Running on Windows using IIS, ASP.Net, .Net, SQL Server and supported by CentOS and Redis, Elasticsearch.
Why I Left Gulp and Grunt for npm Scripts
Cory House explains how Gulp and Grunt are unnecessary abstractions, whereas npm scripts are plenty powerful and often easier to live with. It’s easier to debug as there’s no extra layer of abstraction, there’s no dependence on plugin authors to update, original tool is better and clearer documented. (from Web Design Weekly #219)
iOS and tvOS development
An in-app debugging and exploration tool for iOS
Excellent tool for iOS developer which helps you for example to simulate 3D Touch in the Simulator. Also in Xcode 7.3 you can now simulate 3D Touch without external tools if your trackpad has Force Touch.
Designing for the Apple TV
Michael Flarup writes some tips for getting design right when working with the Apple TV. He covers all of the basics but also some interesting points like making sure you meet the expectations of a TV based platform in terms of displaying and taking advantage of video based content. (from iOS dev Weekly #239)
tvOS.design
This is pttrns for tvOS. Not a huge amount of data in yet but what’s there is worth a look. (from iOS dev Weekly #240)
Enterprise Java
WebLogic on Docker Containers Series: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
If you are using WebLogic as your application server, you should have a look at Bruno Borges series about running WebLogic on Docker. First post gets you started and shows how to create a basic Docker image with WebLogic and one with a configured WebLogic domain. The second post takes a more detailed look at the creation of the images, and the third one focusses on the domain configuration. (from Java Weekly 8/16)
Something different
I Documented Two Years of Travel By Painting In My Moleskine Notebook
Lovely hand-crafted art collection created by a traveler during her visits to different places around the world. An alternative to taking thousands of photos that no one will look at afterwards anyway and a beautiful, more emotional representation of lovely places. (from WDRL 126)
How Spotify Discover Weekly playlists work? and Recommending music on Spotify with deep learning
If you’re wondering how Spotify finds the tracks to your Discover Weekly list, read these two articles.
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