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A Product Development Team Just Made ETH Block Production Twice As Fast
27.11.2019
Blockchain advisory firm ran a test that shows it can cut the average block propagation time by more than 50% on the Ethereum network
“I Designed Bitcoi… Gold” – The Many Facts Pointing to Nick Being Satoshi
27.11.2019
Nick Szabo is something of a legend in the crypto space, and for a good many reasons. Not least of which are his contributions to the development of Bitcoin, his early communications as a cypherpunk, and his continued influential input in economic, philosophical, political and crypto circles since....
Swiss Government Moves to Remove Legal Barriers for Blockchain Development
27.11.2019
The Swiss Federal Council has adopted a revised proposal to remove legal hurdles still holding up blockchain innovation, and will pass the legislation to the parliament
Bitcoin Cash House African Expansion to Feature in Toronto Meetup
27.11.2019
Besides networking with the local community, bitcoin cash meetups are a great way to learn about the development of the cryptocurrency and the ecosystem from the people that make it happen. The upcoming Toronto meetup, for example, will feature new details about the expansion of the Bitcoin Cash...
Mirror Android Device to Computer
26.11.2019
As I continue my adventure into Android development, pair programming has been a huge help in learning this new platform. When it’s time to build and run the app, relying on the emulator is a fools’ game — the emulator is slow and it’s hard to reliably simulate gestures....
Create Amazingly Stable Tests Your Way — Coded and Code-Less
21.11.2019
Testim’s end-to-end test automation delivers the speed and stability of AI-based codeless tests, with the power of code. You get the flexibility to record or code tests, run on third-party grids, fit your workflow and tools including CI, Git and more. Join the Dev Kit beta to start writing stable...
Getting Started with GraphQL
20.11.2019
GraphQL was developed by Facebook in 2012 to power up its mobile apps. Since open-sourcing GraphQL specification in 2015, it gained a lot of popularity and is now used by many development teams, including giants like GitHub, Twitter or Airbnb. Why so? And what exactly is a GraphQL? Let's take...
The Best Cocktail in Town
18.11.2019
I admit I've held in a lot of pent-up frustration about the direction web development has taken the past few years. There is the complexity. It requires a steep learning curve. It focuses more on more configuration than it does development.
That's not exactly great news for folks like me...
The Kind of Development I Like
18.11.2019
I'm turning 40 next year (yikes!) and even though I've been making websites for over 25 years, I feel like I'm finally beginning to understand the kind of development I like. Expectedly, these are not new revelations and my views can be summed up by two older Computer Science adages that pre-date...
Global Trend Against Cash Intensifies as China Joins the Squeeze
16.11.2019
For various reasons, a growing number of nations are experiencing the rapid development of cashless society. Paper money may become extinct in some countries in the not-so-distant future. Prompted by the spread of private and decentralized cryptocurrencies and the threat of losing control over...
JAMstack CMSs Have Finally Grown Up!
15.11.2019
This article is based on Brian's presentation at Connect.Tech 2019. Slides with speaker notes from that presentation are available to download.
In my experience, developers generally find the benefits of the JAMstack easy to comprehend. Sites are faster because the resources are static and served...
Xinyuan Boosts Real Estate Development Through Blockchain Technology
15.11.2019
Taking pride in being China’s first real estate entities to get listed in NYSE, the Xinyuan Real Estate Co. Ltd. has started implementing the expertise of blockchain technology into the business to boost its operability and manageability. The firm has established itself as the first real estate...
Some CSS Grid Strategies for Matching Design Mockups
14.11.2019
The world of web development has always had a gap between the design-to-development handoff. Ambitious designers want the final result of their effort to look unique and beautiful (and true to their initial vision), whereas many developers find more value in an outcome that is consistent...
‘Zimdollars’ Issued for First Time in Ten Years Amidst Continued Hyperinflation
14.11.2019
The new Zimbabwe dollar has hit the streets, with banks beginning to issue the paper currency Tuesday. The ‘Zimdollar,’ existing earlier this year as coins, e-balances, the RTGS dollar, and bond notes, was returned to in June as a replacement for the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS)...
ITFC Raises Its Trade Finance and Development Efforts in OIC Countries
12.11.2019
International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) has announced that in the third quarter of 2019, it helped in boosting growth in these nations by financing transactions to the tune of $2.2 billion. It is a significant development and shows the sort of financial commitment that has been made...
Working with Fusebox and React
8.11.2019
If you are searching for an alternative bundler to webpack, you might want to take a look at FuseBox. It builds on what webpack offers — code-splitting, hot module reloading, dynamic imports, etc. — but code-splitting in FuseBox requires zero configuration by default (although webpack will offer...
8×8 Protocol Completes Its Wallet Development; Announces the Listing of EXE on BITSONIC
8.11.2019
8X8 Protocol’s EXE token has recently been listed on BITSONIC exchange. Earlier, 8X8 Protocol has announced the launch of its wallet. As per reports, the development of the crypto wallet, 8X8 DEX, was completed earlier, and it passed the primitive stage of testing as well. It’s now available in...
Lisk Announces That All New Features of SDK 3.0.0 Completes the Development Stage
8.11.2019
Lisk has announced that it will be hosting an all-day event for developers in Berlin on November 19, 2019. In this event, participants can learn how to make blockchain applications, take part in coding challenges, and attend talks on blockchain technology. Lisk has also stated that the development...
Stellar’s Plan to Win Global Payments: Play Nice With the Finance Cops
7.11.2019
Stellar's first-ever conference in Mexico City gathered entrepreneurs eager to lean into global financial regulations
Development Bank of Namibia Brings High-Level Finance to Namibia
7.11.2019
The financial industry has grown at a fair clip over the past decade or so in Africa, and one of the nations that can now boast of a highly evolved finance industry in Namibia. However, such development does not take place in a vacuum, and there needs to be institutional support in place so that...