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Hackathons 101: How to Hack Your Way to the Top

Over the past few years, hackathons have become incredibly popular, drawing thousands of participants and offering enormous prizes. The success of public hackathons has led some companies to start hacking

Why APIs Are Critical for IoT Success

With all the buzz surrounding IoT, it’s fair to assert we are in the midst of another shift in computing. Enabled by cheaper hardware and elastic cloud based services, we

Top Tips for Creating Native Library APIs

Libraries are cohesive pieces of reusable code that encapsulate some functionality or business logic and exposes it to developers through an API, which a collection of public functions, classes or

Introduction to Internal DSLs in Scala

Introduction A domain-specific language (DSL) is a language that you design with a specific domain in mind. There are two types of domain-specific languages (DSLs): external and internal. The former

Project Management Work Analysis

In a previous project management article, we discussed financial analysis and its importance. If we decide that the project is profitable, the next step is to analyze the work scope.

Project Management Time Analysis

This article will discuss the fourth project constraint???time. After determining that the project is profitable, accepting it, decomposing the work scope into smaller tasks and assigning responsibilities, it is necessary

Introduction to Functional Programming in Scala

Scala is a multi-paradigm programming language in the sense that it supports both object-oriented and functional paradigms. It runs on the JVM and can be installed using the instructions found