Monads: Your App As A Function, Part 2 - mttkay here.

This is part 2 of Monads: Your App As A Function . In the previous post we started looking at monads, and summarized that their core purpose is to transport…

Monads: Your App As A Function, Part 2 - mttkay here.

Monads: Your App As A Function, Part 1 - mttkay here.

A paper by Twitter’s Marius Eriksen ( “Your server as a function” ), which introduces the key concepts behind Finagle is what made me choose the title for this…

Monads: Your App As A Function, Part 1 - mttkay here.

Top 7 Tips for RxJava on Android — Futurice

Last November I found myself at Futurice in London starting a challenging project that seemed to be the perfect candidate for a more immersive reactive system.…

Top 7 Tips for RxJava on Android — Futurice

Getting Groovy With Reactive Android

“Slow,” a word no one ever wants to see associated with their app. Delay and lag of as little as 100–200 milliseconds will be perceived by users as poor, slow…

Getting Groovy With Reactive Android

staltz/introrx.md

(by @andrestaltz)
So you’re curious in learning this new thing called (Functional) Reactive Programming (FRP).
Learning it is hard, even harder by the lack of…

staltz/introrx.md

The unstoppable rise of the global surveillance profiteers

Imagine if your government put a price tag on your privacy, acquiring shadowy surveillance technology that exploited your personal vulnerabilities. Earlier…

The unstoppable rise of the global surveillance profiteers

Java, Scala, Ceylon: Evolution in the JVM Petri Dish | DZone

Ceylon is a marvelous new JVM language from Gavin King, the creator of Hibernate. It enters a crowded field -- ever since Martin Odersky's pioneering Scala…

Java, Scala, Ceylon: Evolution in the JVM Petri Dish | DZone

Hamburg wird zur WLAN-Hauptstadt

Sieht man ausnahmsweise vom Hafen ab, dann ist Hamburg in diesen Jahren längst kein Tor zur Welt mehr. Jedenfalls nicht, wenn man das World Wide Web als…

Hamburg wird zur WLAN-Hauptstadt

Luxe Valet Eliminates the Headache of Finding a Parking Spot

Jack And Jill Are Google's New Compilers For Android App Developers

Android has gone through quite a few changes during its short 6 years of life. The Android that drives most of the world's smartphones of today would be almost…

Jack And Jill Are Google's New Compilers For Android App Developers

More Typing, Less Testing: TDD with Static Types

I learned test-driven development from Kent Beck’s book Test-Driven Development By Example . It’s an excellent introduction that whets the appetite for one of…

More Typing, Less Testing: TDD with Static Types

Using a password manager on Android? It may be wide open to sniffing attacks

In early 2013, researchers exposed some unsettling risks stemming from Android-based password managers. In a paper titled “Hey, You, Get Off of My Clipboard,”…

Using a password manager on Android? It may be wide open to sniffing attacks

Types and Functions

This is part of the book Category Theory for Programmers. The previous instalment was Category: The Essence of Composition . The category of types and functions…

Types and Functions

The Programmer’s Price

Not long ago, Stephen Bradley, a New York tech entrepreneur, was looking to expand his company, AuthorBee, which aggregates tweets and Instagram posts and puts…

The Programmer’s Price

Steve Mann: My “Augmediated” Life - IEEE Spectrum

Back in 2004, I was awakened early one morning by a loud clatter. I ran outside, only to discover that a car had smashed into the corner of my house. As I went…

Steve Mann: My “Augmediated” Life - IEEE Spectrum

How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web | Ars Technica

Launching a new app in the mobile age is hard. If you want to reach a wide audience, you usually have to make your client three times at minimum: once for…

How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web | Ars Technica

Barbie F*cks It Up Again

I recently paid a visit to my sweet friend Helen Jane and was excited to find this book at her house.
(The second book of the “2 Books in 1!” is “Barbie [i can…

Barbie F*cks It Up Again

GNU SETL Om

Introduction : About SETL and GNU SETL. To the Student of Programming Languages : On semantics and syntax. SETL Variations : How GNU SETL differs from CIMS…

GNU SETL Om

Android 5.0 Lollipop, thoroughly reviewed

Android updates don’t matter anymore—or at least that’s what many people think. Back-to-back-to-back Jelly Bean releases and a KitKat release seemed to only…

Android 5.0 Lollipop, thoroughly reviewed

How Passion Saved Windows

“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” – Howard H. Aiken Look around today.…

How Passion Saved Windows

Why I love databases — Medium

Last year I worked with various databases at Square. I did:
Initially forced by necessity, I soon became fascinated by databases. The study of databases…

Why I love databases — Medium

Ist das Leistungsschutzrecht gescheitert und werfen die Verlage die Flinte ins Korn? Nein. Ganz im Gegenteil

Twittern Axel Springer hat Google nun auch für seine letzten vier Titel eine Gratislizenz eingeräumt. Heißt das, wir kapitulieren vor Google und geben das…

Ist das Leistungsschutzrecht gescheitert und werfen die Verlage die Flinte ins Korn? Nein. Ganz im Gegenteil

Kampf gegen Schulpflicht darf im Gefängnis enden | law blog

Der Staat darf die Schulpflicht auch mit den Mitteln des Strafrechts durchsetzen. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht erklärte eine hessische Regelung für rechtmäßig, die schulverweigernden Eltern bis zu einem halben Jahr Gefängnis androht.

via Kampf gegen Schulpflicht darf im Gefängnis enden | law blog.

Einfach mal bei der VG Media anfragen

Es ist zum Glück selten, dass sich ein Gesetz völlig absehbar in ein totales Desaster verwandelt. Mit dem Leistungsschutzrecht ist das jetzt passiert.

Einfach mal bei der VG Media anfragen | Schmalenstroer.net

iPhone Encryption and the Return of the Crypto Wars

iPhone Encryption and the Return of the Crypto Wars

Last week Apple announced that it is closing a serious security vulnerability in the iPhone. It used to be that the phone’s encryption only protected a small…