Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Article - Russian, Chinese programmers are the most talented

Devs,

This is pretty insightful. I always knew that most of the talent was OUS, but also outside of India was kind of a surprise. Check out this article for details (although I'm not completely sure of its credibility).
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3113107/application-development/us-developers-have-the-numbers-but-china-and-russia-have-the-skills.html


Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Saving Print PDF version instead of Downloading Google Doc

Devs,

I recently downloaded a Google Doc into a PDF and saw all the text in bold. Screech! So, I found this answer helpful in getting the PDF format desired.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/docs/fp5eDPafroY

Downloading to PDF


Save as PDF via Chrome's Print Page


Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Google's QUIC protocol - a review by Mattias Geniar

Devs,

Here's another great article for today's read.

https://ma.ttias.be/googles-quic-protocol-moving-web-tcp-udp/

This relates to improving network performance. Most people won't care if their networks are performing well. But, this network performance can make a huge difference for users who have poor network infrastructure like in 2nd, 3rd world countries. And with FB and Amazon attempting to provide wifi access in remote areas across the globe, this networking performance and connection reliability could make a tremendous difference. Let's stay tuned into Google's networking research.

Cheers,
G2