Famo.us Guitar Tuner

Zach Gardner Articles, HTML5, JavaScript, Keyhole Creations 2 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.The Famo.us JavaScript library was released on 4/10/2014. The idea behind it is simple yet powerful: make HTML5/JavaScript/CSS web pages perform and feel like native mobile apps. …

Don’t Fear the Rapid

Rik Scarborough Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java, Project Management Leave a Comment

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.The term Rapid Application Development, or RAD, has been around for a few years. From the way it’s avoided in all sensible software development …

An argument against defaulting to auto-increment primary keys

Shannon Griswold Articles, Databases, Java 11 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.The de-facto “easy” primary key for ages has been the auto-incrementing integer. Upon insertion of a new record, the database simply increments a counter …

Introducing Marionette-Require-Boilerplate for Your Single Page Application

Brett Jones Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, HTML5, JavaScript 1 Comment

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.Marionette-Require-Boilerplate (MRB) is a simple boilerplate I created to help get Single Page Applications off the ground with a small starter project. It incorporates a …