By: John Blair, Netflix Partner Engineering The Netflix application runs on hundreds of smart TVs, streaming sticks and pay TV set top boxes. The role of a Partner Engineer at Netflix is to help device manufacturers launch the Netflix application on…
When you spend a lot of your day digging into Android as I do, you start looking for ways to get to things faster. One shortcut equals several saved taps and seconds, which add up over a day, week, and…
Here are 9 useful apps for developers Today i am going to share to you the apps i use on all the time when developing. Web Screenshot As the name goes, this is an app that enables you to take…
One of the first things I liked about the brave new world of TypeScript was the TypeScript enum. I had previously used them in C# and felt a reassuring familiarity. Enums are a set of named constants that can take…
Ten years ago, there was a distinction between “backend” and “frontend” developers. A backend developer would be managing the business logic and database transactions using Ruby on Rails or Java. A frontend developer would be responsible for implementing designs and…
Introduction There are plenty of factors to consider when choosing a programming language to invest time and effort in and some uncertainties come up: “May I be admitted to some job position?”, “Is Salary going to be enough?”, “Will the…
Cassidy Williams has been doing a Blogvent (blogging every day for a month) over on the Netlify Blog. A lot of the blog posts are about Next.js. There is a lot to like about Next.js. I just pulled one of Cassidy’s starters for fun.…
BY MICHAEL SNOYMAN, DECEMBER 14, 2020 I first started writing Haskell about 15 years ago. My learning curve for the language was haphazard at best. In many cases, I learnt concepts by osmosis, and only later learned the proper terminology…
There are some great roadmaps for web developers out there. But some make you solve a “puzzle” before even getting started, as there are multiple choices that you have to make. When I started to learn Web Development, I wished…
