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Magic Constants in Android Development

Every little bit counts. While code readability is important, it is much more important to ensure that the application behaves smoothly for each user.

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How to Make Your iOS Apps More Secure with SSL Pinning

SSL pinning plays a major role in building highly secure mobile apps which users will be able to use even in countless insecure wireless networks.

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Trends in Ruby Analyzing Rubygems Stats for 2015

The market is flooded with new languages and frameworks. Many seem promising, and a lot of developers are talking about the death of Ruby and Rails.

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Multiline Strings in Ruby 2.3 the Squiggly Heredoc

Did you ever have to write a nicely indented multiline string in Ruby? There was no out-of-the-box solution until the squiggly heredoc was introduced.

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Say Hello to a Faster Android Emulator

For years, Android developers have been struggling with the Android emulator. Two years ago we switched to Genymontion which is both fast and reliable.

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Top 10 iOS Swift Libraries Every iOS Developer Should Know About

To make the transition to Swift easier and save you from writing some components for your app, here are 10 libraries every iOS developer should know about.

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Top 5 Android Libraries Every Android Developer Should Know About V. 2015

The updated list of our five favorite libraries.

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Things to NOT Avoid When Writing CSS

A blog post about things to avoid when writing CSS caught our attention a few days ago. We beg to differ on some of the points raised.

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Continuous Integration on Android: Why We Ditched Jenkins for Circle CI

Any CI solution that helps you code is better than nothing, but some are better than others. For us, Circle CI is a better fit than Jenkins.

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Using App Transport Security iOS 9 Makes Your Apps a Little Bit More Secure

Apple’s ATS provides secure communication between an application and web services. It does this by ensuring that certain requirements are met .

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Best Rails Image Uploader Paperclip vs. Carrierwave vs. Refile

Everybody that has ever implemented file upload by hand in a Rails app knows that it’s no cakewalk, not to mention a major security risk.

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Tips for Participating in the Rails Rumble

Rails Rumble is the biggest international Rails hackathon; over 500 teams from across the globe, four members fabricating an awesome Rails app in 48 hours.