Tag: Development - Page 2

The hype vs reality: reflections from a developer with 30 years of experience

This morning I came across a talk that made me reflect quite a bit about all this fuss surrounding AI and software development. The speaker, with a healthy dose of skepticism, does a “reality check” on all the grandiose claims we’re hearing everywhere.

The complete talk that inspired these reflections. It’s worth watching in full.

When developing games for mobile devices, we have multiple cross-platform alternatives:

OpenCart is an e-commerce platform made in php, with impeccable development, 100% MVC. As a proof of concept, I have rewritten the template system of OpenCart to Haanga (Django templates for PHP, über efficient) by César Rodas.

WebAppers offers us 30 icons, and their sources for developers of this platform.

Lately I’ve been busy studying and testing different libraries and resources:

• ExtJS: Javascript.
• CakePHP: PHP.
• Joose: Javascript.
• Ontimize: Java.
• Yahoo UI Library: Javascript.
• …

I have many examples, tricks, and “recipes” for each of these that I’ll be publishing to keep them organized and easily accessible, and also because they’ll surely be useful to others.