Tech
I recently created a site which I'm proud to say now hosts an impressive collection of tweet-sized D3 creations from the hugely creative people of the internet. In this post I'll talk through deconstructing one or two of those creations with the aim of giving any aspiring artists a starting point.
Tech
Making the jump to fully modularized applications in javascript is now incredibly easy with ES6 modules and javascript package manager (jspm). We'll take a look at the refreshing simplicity in the jspm workflow and how it goes about achieiving this.
Tech
In this post, we discuss cross site scripting attacks against web apps, and how to defend against them.
Tech
The next version of D3, the data visualisation library, is on the way. As we maintain D3FC (a charting library built on top of D3) we want to stay on top of those changes, to make sure that the library makes appropriate use of any new functionality and to embrace any new conventions that have emerged.
Tech
Swift Bond is a binding framework that removes the mundane task of wiring up your UI. In this tutorial, which was originally published on Ray Wenderlich's website, I introduce the concepts of Bond and demonstrate how to use it to rapidly build an iOS app.
Tech
In this post, we discuss SQL and other injection attacks against web apps, and how to defend against them.
Testing
Some of the biggest challenges when testing software can be getting the software into some very specific states...
Tech
If you've used React and Flux, you'll know how powerful this combination is when building single page applications. But how practical is it when building truly large scale applications with multiple sections?.
Tech
In this post, the causes, effects and mitigations of Man in the Middle attacks against web apps are discussed.
Tech
Hot-reloading UI is a **hot** topic at the moment. I want to take some time to explain why, in the class of applications I typically work on, I believe it to be such an important feature for future UI frameworks to have.
Data Engineering
This post uses Docker Compose to spin up a three container HTTP server. One container services the HTTP requests and delegates work to two other containers in a load-balanced way. Erlang is used for development to add a bit of extra challenge!
Tech
This post looks at integrating Angular 2 with Immutable.js and Redux, a popular Flux store implementation. It also demonstrates that the functional approach, encouraged by these technologies, allow for powerful concepts such as time travel, where you can replay actions and application state.
Data Engineering
Apache Spark has quickly become the largest open source project in big data, but why has it suddenly got so much momentum behind it?
Tech
Literally a couple of hours after we released the previous post on writing a RESTful API with ASP.NET 5, I learned that Microsoft have renamed the new platform. This is a very short summary of that decision.
Tech
This blog describes my first experience of writing a RESTful API with Microsoft's new MVC 6 framework which is due to be released as part of ASP.NET 5 in early 2016.
Testing
When automating end to end browser verification, how do you keep it simple, make it robust and enable flexibility within your automated checks. One way is to use helpers.
Data Engineering
Big data is one of those buzz phrases that gets thrown round a lot, companies love saying they work with ‘Big’ data, but what is ‘Big’ data?
People
A glimpse into working life for new software developers and testers in the first few weeks of Scott Logic's graduate programme.