This past weekend, four of us from the Metova-Conway office attended JOLT Hackathon at the Venture Center in the Little Rock Technology Park. There we faced off against 30 teams across Arkansas and Missouri in friendly capture-the-flag challenges ranging from Web Vulnerabilities and Forensics to Remote Access and Reverse Engineering. The event started Friday night, went all day Saturday (literally 7am - midnight), and most of Sunday. Throughout it all the Game Masters’ excitement and energy kept the teams going, provided hints and help, and always made sure that the focus of the event was to have fun.
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Internationalization (I18n) is one of the simplest steps you can take to make your Rails code shine. I8n offers a way to extract string and localization data from a Rails app. It mainly consists of using two functions in your views I18n.translate (for strings) and I18n.localize (for date/times). They are often seen in their abbreviated forms t and l. At Metova, I18n is a minimum requirement for writing code: if your views haven’t been I18n’d then your merge request is going to be rejected. Keep scrolling for reasons why you should care about I18n. Read MoreWhy mobile app developers struggle to use poorly implemented APIs
Every mobile application developer has had that "I need data" conversation with a customer who eagerly responds, "We have APIs." The first reaction is usually a guttural ugh! "We have APIs" usually means that the company has a ReST web service that is securely nestled deep in the enterprise behind a reverse proxy and no documentation. It also means that there is a very arduous journey ahead to gain access to this precious resource and then slowly peel the onion of the API black box back to discover its behavior. Read MoreThis year, Metova sent me to WWDC to get an early first-hand look at all the new upcoming technologies Apple is releasing. This was my first time attending WWDC, and it did not disappoint. Essentially, every rumoured announcement you could find on the internet actually was delivered along with multiple other exciting big ticket items. To top it all off, Tim Cook surprised us all at the end of the keynote by informing everyone that a moderated conversation with Michelle Obama would be the first session to kick off day two. Not bad, right?
Read MoreApple has been holding its WWDC developer’s conference this week. On Monday, during the keynote, they announced the new iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS operating systems. They also announced new iMacs, iPad Pros, Macbook Pros, and an all new HomePod which is a speaker designed to fill a room with music and act as an easy interface to Siri. It didn't stop there, though. Here's what else is new.
Read MoreBeginning May 17th and spanning a handful of days, Google had its annual developer conference. Google announced what they've been working on since the last I/O conference, and wow, have they been busy! The central theme of the conference was mostly centered around artificial intelligence. If I only had a dollar for each time the words "machine learning" were said...
Read MoreThis guide will walk you through how to setup Fastlane, with special focus on the 'Match' tool which automates the handling of code-signing for iOS apps.
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