RethinkDB is alive and well! When the NoSQL database project met with commercial failure last October, a core group of developers kept the project going until it could find another home. And find a new home it did, when the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) purchased the company's intellectual property and put it under the jurisdiction of the Linux Foundation. When it purchased RethinkDB, CNCF put the company’s IP under an entirely different license that should give it fresh life in the time to come. Licensing Issues In its old life, RethinkDB was licensed under the Affero General Public...
If you’re a developer, you’ve most-definitely heard of Git or used it for yourself. Git is version control software that helps teams collaborate on building software or web sites or managing other collections of information. Git, like many other pieces of software, can be operated in two ways - via a graphical user interface (GUI), or through a command line interface (CLI). For some developers, the first instinct might be to use the command line for everything, including git, which is not a bad idea. However, we argue that using a GUI can offer advantages that you just...
What is Alfred? Alfred is a more robust version of Mac's Spotlight app-launching utility, and one of the best tools to boost your productivity on Mac. You can get it for free, or upgrade it for £29.00 to unlock additional features. Why are you so interested? Because you probably hate wasting precious seconds performing mundane, routine, and repetitive things. And also, no one looks cool in the movies using a mouse or trackpad. In fact, I found those gifs using an Alfred Workflow, without having to pull up Chrome: Launching Apps But if I did want to open Chrome...
I led a workshop recently on product development at an event in Orlando, FL called Make Day. The purpose of the event was to bring members of the community together to learn techniques in designing and building with a team, while also working toward the common purpose of building solutions to make Orlando the best city for women in tech. This post will include selected slides from my presentation as well as my own commentary. Click here to view the full presentation. My workshop was one of two that day, following the Design Ideation Workshop (slides here). So, I focused...
Orlando Lady Developers has announced an upcoming 'Make Day', an exciting two-part workshop in which coders and creators will develop their abilities in design, ideation and product development while contributing to solutions that help women achieve their goals in the software and technology industry. The situation is challenging; by 2020 there will be 1.4 million available jobs in computing-related fields, but the United States is on pace to fill only 29 percent of them with computer science graduates. Countless studies have shown the importance and benefits to approaching problems with diverse teams, yet at current rates only 3 percent...