flexible pubsub for the modern web
Nchan is a scalable, flexible pub/sub server for the modern web, built as a module for the Nginx web server. It can be configured as a standalone server, or as a shim between your application and hundreds, thousands, or millions of live subscribers. [mgamazon...
1962 Monaco GP in 60FPS HD / Onboard & Air footage | Ferrari 156, Porsche 804, etc.
Remastered onboard footage shot during the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix weekend.(Not in the race) This is a 60FPS HD video, so please watch in 1080p60 or 720p60. [Scenes from the race - https://youtu.be/gGmoy1rXWKI] This footage is from the 1962 West German documentary film...
Toonify Yourself!
Toonify Yourself! Sorry Toonify Yourself is offline for the moment! Seems like it was a popular idea and server costs were going up quickly so we decided to turn it off. Thanks for everyone who tried out the model and shared the results. View...
Announcing Flutter 1.22
We’re delighted to introduce our latest release of Flutter, with extensive support for iOS 14 and Android 11. Flutter 1.22 builds on the foundation set by previous releases by enabling developers to build fast, beautiful user experiences for multiple platforms from a...
Server-side Showdown: Apache vs NGINX
Web servers are at the core of the internet. Without web server software such as Apache and NGINX, the web would be nothing like what we see today. However, they’re not interchangeable. View original article
Updates on Flutter and Firebase
Flutter is more than just an engine, a set of widgets, and some tools; it also includes a large ecosystem of packages to add functionality to your apps beyond what comes out of the box. Some of the most popular packages are the set that supports Firebase (aka...
Announcing Flutter 1.20
Our ongoing vision with Flutter is to provide a portable toolkit for building stunning experiences wherever you might want to paint pixels on the screen. With every release, we continue to push towards ensuring that Flutter is fast, beautiful, productive and open for...
Flutter Hooks, say goodbye to StatefulWidget and reduce boilerplate code.
Flutter Hooks, say goodbye to StatefulWidget and reduce boilerplate code. Flutter hooks have been available for a while now but they didn't get a lot of love or visibility since then. I am wondering why, because they are awesome! View original...
flutter/samples
A Flutter sample app that shows a state management approach using the Provider package. This is the app discussed in the Simple app state management section of flutter.dev. Here the app sets up objects it needs to track state: a catalog and a shopping cart. [mgamazon...
Why we think Flutter will help us scale mobile development at Nubank
An overview of the criteria and study we conducted to decide to use Flutter as our main technology for cross-platform mobile development. Nubank has been a mobile-first Fintech from the beginning. View original article
Flutter Login Screen with Firebase Auth and Facebook Login
This beautiful login screen is made using ClipPath, CustomClipper, ClipOval, BoxDecoration etc. All the shapes are made programtically. View original article
Flutter Web and PaginatedDataTable
Note: For changes to data, we have used Provider….This article won’t be explaining how the changes gets notified…. Data is read lazily from from a DataTableSource. View original article
Flutter : How to do user login with Firebase
Flutter is an open source mobile SDK developed by Google to build high quality applications for Android and iOS. It allows developers to not only build application with beautiful design, smooth animation and fast performance, but also able to integrate new features...
BLoC in Flutter: Implement Clean, Flux-like Architecture
How to architect a Flutter application is a question that has no easy answer. Dart, being a multi-paradigmatic language, lets you mix and match OOP and functional programming approaches. View original article
Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI
You can build anything with .NET. It’s one of the main reasons millions of developers choose .NET as the platform for their careers, and companies invest for their businesses. With .NET 5 we begin our journey of unifying the .NET platform, bringing . [mgamazon...
NativeScript example, step by step, Windows 10
A tiny, 5 minute, tutorial on creating a new empty project using NativeScript + TypeScript, compiling it and running in Android. First of all, install NativeScript (NodeJS v4.6.0 x64)plus the latest NativeScript. Check if the installation is OK: tns...
tip: Volley comm library for android, available via Gradle
Previously, in order to use Volley, the only way was to add the "jar" file to the project - not anymore - official volley is now available, just change the app.gradle file: [mgamazon...
Converting multi-page PDF to PNG using ImageMagick
Quick tutorial on converting PDF files to PNG using ImageMagick in CentOS. Foreplay: install ImageMagick First, install ImageMagick using yum. As ImageMagick is not available, you need to activate the EPEL repository in your CentOS installation. wget...
Download Android Apps with Source Code
Available at f-droid is a directory of open source android apps (full with source code). A great learning resource for beginners.
Web font generator
At fontSquirrel. You upload your font and it generates every known format, CSS code and even embeds fonts inside CSS using base64 data.
Public Datasets
Available at Xiaming's Github, Awesome Public Datasets are (mostly) free. Subjects include Agriculture, Biology, Climate/Weather, Complex Networks, Computer Networks, Contextual Data, Data Challenges, Economics, Energy, Finance, Geology, GeoSpace/GIS, Government,...
Delphi optimization tools and patches
At Andy's Blog. Includes DelphiSpeedUp, IDEFixPack, VCLFixPath among others.
Composer with WordPress, how to
by SCOTT WALKINSHAW
Compile PHP 7 FPM + CLI from source, without touching the installed PHP 5.x
The following explains how to install PHP 7.0, from source, without uninstalling your current PHP. I used this in a development and continuous integration machine, so i can test both PHP 5.6 or PHP 7.x, ensuring our apps are php7 ready. As i am using Apache + Mod_php...
PHP 7.0 released
Official release at PHP.net
Optimize Eclipse: better speed, better memory usage
by Nicolas Bize.
VMWare player, fixing “virtual disk needs repair”
This one pops up from time to time, and VMWare Player has no tool to fix it. Worry no more, Christos Matskas found the solution.
Android’s RecyclerView, item clicks, how to
RecyclerView is a great class what you should consider over ListView for building list interfaces. It offers more flexibility and has built-in hooks that make implementing animations and custom layouts much easier compared to ListView. Unfortunately RecyclerView is...
Open source ODB-II reader for Android
Available at https://github.com/pires/android-obd-reader
Android Studio 1.4 is out
Full release notes here.