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Simple Server-Client Syncing for Mobile Apps Using Couchbase Mobile

If you’re developing a content rich application that synchronizes data from server to smartphone and needs to work offline, this is the article for you.

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Top 5 Android Libraries Every Android Developer Should Know About [2014]

In the last year or so, Android development has really come of age. Android Studio with Gradle at its core is a dash of light after Eclipse.

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Run Faster Ruby on Rails Tests

Performing tests consumes precious time so we decided to do some tinkering to make our test suite load and execute faster.

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Running JavaScript in an iOS Application with JavaScriptCore

Although JavaScriptCore has been officially available to iOS and Mac developers for some time, its features are still documented rather poorly.

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Eclipse Is Dead for Android Development and I Helped Kill It

In less than a year, Eclipse lost its position as the primary IDE for Android development and became extinct.

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Web Components Building Blocks of the Future Web

Every now and then a technology comes out that changes the web landscape. In 2008, Google announced Google Chrome, a simple but fast and powerful browser. Around the same time, HTML5 started to emerge and gave us access to a lot of new features. Now it’s time to embrace another new technology called Web Components.

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Securing Mobile Banking on Android with SSL Certificate Pinning

If you want to exchange some sensitive data between your application and a server. SSL should do the trick, right? Right, but that’s only half of the story.

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A Ruby on Rails Continuous Integration Process Using Github, Semaphore, CodeClimate and HipChat

How our Rails team handles buggy code with testing and continuous integration using Github Semaphore, CodeClimate and HipChat.

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iBeacon Bridging the Gap Between E-Commerce and Brick and Mortar Retail

Along with the iOS 7 update, various Apple mobile devices received support last year for an interesting technology called iBeacon, that aims to help us with shopping, navigating indoor locations and much more.

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iOS 7 SDK Is Mandatory. Upgrade Your Apps Now!

Apple has recently announced that, starting from February 1st, all iOS apps and updates need to work seamlessly with iOS 7.

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Faster Web Application Deployments Using Mina Instead of Capistrano

Every web application needs to be deployed to a server at one point, and there are several ways to do that.

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ART vs Dalvik Introducing the New Android Runtime in KitKat

As a part of Android 4.4 KitKat, Google decided to introduce Android ART, a new way of executing apps on top of the Android operating system.