On January 28th, Facebook announced that it was shutting down Parse, the popular Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), in January 2017, after having purchased it for a reported $85M in 2013. Thousands of mobile apps and services rely on Parse, and if yours is one of...
As 2014 winds down, we’ll take an opportunity to look back at some of our most-read posts from this year, in case you missed them the first time. Back in May, Noah Miller took a look at what you need to know about creating plug-ins for the gulp build system: A...
As 2014 winds down, we’ll take an opportunity to look back at some of our most-read posts from this year, in case you missed them the first time. Brian Poteat contributed a few posts looking at the Meteor web application framework: Meteor: Working with Accounts...
Consider three reference points on the spectrum of errors that might occur in a build system: The build system broke (we’ll call this “fatal”): the makefile has a bug, a file resource disappeared, a gremlin burrowed through the ram A critical build...
I covered the potential simplicity of gulp plugins in my previous post (refresher: gulp, the hot new JavaScript build system, enables writing an asynchronous, streaming plugin in just a couple dozen lines). On the other hand, gulp’s philosophy leads to a pretty...
