Summer is finally approaching although the weather is still chilly here in Finland especially if you’ve spent your winter holiday in lovely Italy. Have to say that for mountain bikers Finale Ligure is a nice destination to start your season after long winter. April has also been quite busy with upcoming project deadline but here’s some monthly notes to keep you learning.
Monthly notes, issue 25.4.2017
iOS Development
Developers can finally respond to App Store reviews
Tooks some time to Apple to get this feature to App Store. Developers can now respond to reviews and this article includes just about everything you need to know. (from iOS Dev Weekly 294)
The Details That Matter
Small design changes can make a huge difference in apps’ UX. Nick Babich does a really nice job making design more approachable and explaining the merits of his suggestions. (from iOS Dev Weekly 294)
Save Yourself Some Xcode Time By Mastering These Tips
Every developer has to look for shortcuts. Shortcuts leave you more time to develop, rather than taking the long route (such as the mouse!) for many Xcode tasks. Seasoned Xcoders will know most of these tips, but I bet even they will have forgotten one or two. Learn these now and save yourself more time than you could imagine over your career. (from Indie iOS Focus Weekly 117)
Software development is hard
Tout est Terrible
Loose transcription of a talk Fred Hébert gave at the Web a Quebec conference. Everything is terrible, a spooky scary story of how we can have a simple application that looks reasonable and show a bunch of issues and potential bugs that can hide in it and surprise us in nasty ways. And that it’s hard to really feel safe about any code out there.
Competitive Programmer’s Handbook
Good resource for brushing up programming skills and theory knowledge. Books purpose is to give the reader a thorough introduction to competitive programming. It’s especially intended for students who want to learn algorithms and possibly participate in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) or in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).
Frontend development
JavaScript Patterns for 2017 [Video]
A 50 minute roundup of common, JavaScript-specific techniques like using modules, webpack, ES6 syntax, classes, async/await and more. (from JavaScript Weekly 331)
Facebook scraps React as we know it, welcomes successor React Fiber
React.js is dead. Long live React Fiber. Completely rewritten, backward compatible with minor breaking changes.
Why It’s So Important To Focus On The Bottom Nav Bar
Making our app easy to use can be anything but easy. One way to make it easier on yourself is by focusing as much navigation as you can on the bottom half of the screen. This post shows just how important it is along with some great tips and visual examples. (from Indie iOS Focus Weekly 117)
Tools
Webhook
Webhook is a lightweight configurable tool written in Go, that allows you to easily create HTTP endpoints (hooks) on your server, which you can use to execute configured commands. Hacker News comments. (from Hacker Newsletter 348)
Tips for monitoring Redis
Ways to get more info from Redis, such as on latency and slow commands. (from DB Weekly 151)
Simple Icons
Dan Leech built a great set of very simple SVG icons of popular brands. It’s available under a Creative Commons Zero license. (from WDRL 179)
How to install and use Headless Chrome on OSX
Google Chrome can now be run in headless mode, replacing PhantomJS or SlimerJS. Jim Cummins explains how to set it up on Mac OS. For Windows and Linux it should be similar using bash and a few adaptions to the local commands. (from WDRL 179)
Something different
4 Late-Night Protein Treats To Pair With Milk
I don’t know why these are called late-night treats but they look delicious. And done with protein powder and more “healthy” choices than normally.
Spruijt’s Ultimate Dilberts IT Collection
Who doesn’t like the entertaining, funny and always accurate Dilbert cartoons? This Ultimate Dilberts collection curates a selection of strips to watch for fun on a Friday afternoon or use occasionally in meetings and presentation.
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