What role does immigration play in the technology community? In what ways can it be harmful? How can it be helpful? With the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, immigration has become one of the foremost issues in American politics today. His staunch anti-immigration stance has not been met with universal support from the technology community - in fact, the world’s largest tech companies - such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft - seem to think that immigration is good for them. When Trump issued an executive order banning all immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, 97...
ReQLPro is a desktop RethinkDB GUI Client for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. If you’re not sure what RethinkDB is, check out their website to learn more about what makes it “the open-source database for the realtime web.” Download ReQLPro What’s New in this Release? Connect with SSL Certificate This was a pretty light update, with the most notable feature in ReQLPro version 0.1.1 being RethinkDB SSL Connections. Adding a connection now has a field to enter your ssl certificate, and an option to reject unauthorized. These fields will map to r.connect(connectionInfo) as...
From the earliest days of the internet, developers have gotten together in chat rooms and message boards and IRC channels to ask questions and get feedback on the projects they've been working on. The internet allows you to learn from other developers and pass your experience along, from anywhere in the world. Still, it is important for developers to plug in to their local community development scene, getting to know the developers in their city and tapping into the experience and opportunities that they provide. Here are five community resources that can help developers find opportunities to work and learn...
The NASA Space Apps Challenge, “the biggest hackathon in the universe”, is coming to Orlando for its third year in a row. To learn more about this event, Code Hangar sat down with Holly Akers, one of the event’s primary organizers. We set out to get her insights into what makes a hackathon successful and what makes the Space Apps Challenge unique. The Venue A hackathon is a gathering, and every gathering needs a good place to gather. The Space Apps Challenge will be held in the Guidewell Innovation Center, located down in the medical technology sector of Lake...
Now with Users, Permissions and Custom Query Filters ReQLPro is a desktop RethinkDB GUI Client for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. If you’re not sure what RethinkDB is, check out their website to learn more about what makes it “the open-source database for the realtime web.” Download ReQLPro The team at Code Hangar is excited to announce the release of ReQLPro version 0.1.0! This is an exciting release for us because it’s been a long time coming. The last ReQLPro release was about 6 months ago. Why did it take so long time for us...