Category: Development
Best Self-Hosted Software Development Tools
While software developers many rely on the distributed version control and source code management functionality of cloud-based services such as GitHub, there’s also a growing number of software developers who want to have total control over their projects. Such developers prefer self-hosted software development tools, and we introduce five such tools in this article. Codiad…
Chrome Dev Tools
Overview Chrome DevTools are an excellent set of tools built directly into the most popular Web Browser, Google Chrome. The best thing about the Chrome DevTools is that these are really easy to use and must have for Web Developers today. From diagnosing common issues you’re facing in your project to tracking the speed and…
Posix Standard
POSIX: An Overview The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is an IEEE standard that helps compatibility and portability between operating systems. Theoretically, POSIX compliant source code should be seamlessly portable. In the real world, application transition often runs into system specific issues. But POSIX compliance makes it simpler to port applications which can result in…
GNU Make Tutorial
GNU Make is a tool that helps to generate executable programs from source code and also process other non-source files from the project. Make gets the logic of building the executables and processing other non-source files from a file called a makefile or a Makefile. Why Make? Make is the de-facto tool for building executable programs from source…
Docker Compose Tutorial
Docker’s popularity as a development tool is on the rise. Docker has breathed new life into the container movement. Developers like using it because it’s fast and easy-to-learn. It helps development teams share standard environments without worrying about wasting time and resources. Developers can set up the desired environment in a Docker container, save the…
Visual Studio Code 1.14 Now Ships with TypeScript 2.4
Microsoft Visual Studio Code 1.14 recently released, is an open-source code editor every developer needs for their core edit, build, and debug cycle. Visual Studio Code provides comprehensive editing and debugging support, an extensibility model, and lightweight integration with existing tools. This latest release comes with a numerous new features, various bug fixes as well…
How to install Qt 5.9.1 (Qt Creator 4.3.1 included) on Ubuntu 17.04
Qt 5.9.1 the most recent release, is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for developing apps with GUIs. Furthermore, its used for developing non-GUI programs such as command-line tools and consoles for servers. Qt5.9.1 comes with a multitude of improvements for the CMake integration, fixes running applications on iOS 10.3 devices, as well as…
Android Studio Ubuntu Tutorial
What is Android Studio? It is the officially recognized Integrated Development environment (IDE) used to make Android apps. It was created by Google and was first declared in 2013 at a Google I/O conference before its release in 2014. Before this IDE was released, Android application development was generally taken care of through Eclipse, a…
Android Studio Themes Tutorial
Android Studio is the official recognized Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Google’s Android operating system, having been unveiled on May 16, 2013, at the Google conference. An Integrated Development Environment is a particular software application that facilitates a comprehensive environment to computer programmers as they develop software. Like most software, it is written in the…
Build, Distribute & Run Sandboxed apps on Linux with Flatpak
Flatpak is the next generation technology for building and installing desktop applications. It is a system for building, distributing as well as running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. Furthermore, the app relies on a project called bubblewrap for the lowlevel sandboxing. Key Features For Users The list of applications is growing all the time and includes Spotify,…