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Kevin Neelands's Groups (7)
Ruby Town
14 members Latest Activity: Dec 5, 2012 Ruby has made an impact on patterns of software development with its elegant syntax and Rails, an intelligent framework designed to simplify coding.
Android Town
35 members Latest Activity: Jul 20, 2019 Android is an open Java-based platform to use for developing mobile apps. Do you believe mobile computing is the wave of the future? We do!
Community Developers
4 members Latest Activity: Jul 30, 2012 Are you interested in community development and social networking? Have you got a website you'd like to enhance with social features? Join us here at…
Idea Town
4 members Latest Activity: Apr 3, 2011 Have a great idea? If you have a great idea, tell the world!
Contest Town
9 members Latest Activity: Apr 13, 2010 Everyone likes a challenge. How about a contest? If you like to flex your muscle, why not join us here at Contest Town. You'll find some challenging…
iPhone Development
40 members Latest Activity: Jan 29, 2015 iPhone development is going nuts! All the apps, all the possibilities. Objective-C is the language. The SDK is out. Shops are springing up everywhere…
Community Corral
23 members Latest Activity: Aug 23, 2012 Are you interested in social networks? We're talking about virtual communities here. Community builders use tools and techniques. We'll discuss them…
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Welcome to Codetown!
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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InfoQ Reading List
Pretext.js Bypasses DOM Layout Reflow, Enabling Advanced UX Patterns at 120 FPS
Cheng Lou, a Midjourney engineer, recently released Pretext, a 15KB open-source TypeScript library that measures and lays out text without browser layout reflows, enabling advanced UX/UI patterns like infinite lists, masonry layouts, and scroll position anchoring to run at 60-120 fps. Pretext was built using an AI loop that reverse-engineered the DOM’s layout calculations.
By Bruno CouriolSubagents in Gemini CLI Enable Task Delegation and Parallel Agent Workflows
Google has introduced subagents in Gemini CLI, a new capability designed to help developers delegate complex or repetitive tasks to specialized AI agents operating alongside a primary session.
By Robert KrzaczyńskiPresentation: Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking - What Works, What Hurts?
Chris Tacey-Green discusses the shift from synchronous commands to asynchronous events within highly regulated environments. He explains the critical role of Inbox and Outbox patterns in preventing data loss, the nuances of event versioning, and how to maintain decoupling between domains. He shares "battle-tested" principles for implementing fault tolerance and managing eventual consistency.
By Chris Tacey-GreenPodcast: Engineering Stable, Secure and Scalable Platforms: A Conversation with Matthew Liste
In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Matthew Liste about building and managing software platforms. Platform services act as the basis for application development, and must always be stable, secure, and scalable. Scaling these systems is particularly difficult because unknown resource contention often causes them to break.
By Matthew ListeArticle: Building Production-Ready tRPC APIs: The TypeScript Alternative to Apollo Federation
This article details our migration from Apollo Federation to a TypeScript-based tRPC stack, which resulted in an 89% reduction in bugs and 67% faster response times. It also covers the mistakes we made, the unexpected performance gains, and an overview of the production architecture we use today to handle 2.4 million daily requests with 99.97% uptime.
By Dinesh Kumar Elumalai
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