Category: Tools

Which Server-Side Swift Framework Is Best For Your Project?

by Beezwax Team
Posted in Mobile Development, Software Design, Swift, Tools, Web Development

Server-side Swift is making waves in the web and services worlds, and developers from iOS, web and other coding backgrounds are increasingly joining the server-side Swift community. There’s just one problem (a good one): How do you choose which open-source Swift framework to use?
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ePubber – generating ePub files with Ruby

by Federico Ramirez
Posted in All, Ruby, Tools, Web Development

ePub is a digital book format which is pretty common nowadays. It’s supported natively by Windows and Android and it’s one of the official formats for digital books in the Apple Books store.

In this post I’ll talk about generating ePub files with Ruby and how to painlessly integrate this feature to your application. I’ll be using a Ruby gem I created called ePubber, which I created to help manage ePub content.

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Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 1: Git

by Colin Lieberman
Posted in productivity, Tools, Unix, Web Development

While the attribution may be hazy, the notion of laziness being an attribute of a good programmer is popular. I don’t know how good of a programmer I am, but I am really lazy.

So lazy that if I find myself doing something over and over, I write a script to do it for me the next time. Continue reading “Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 1: Git” →

Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 4: Cadaver Dissection

by Colin Lieberman
Posted in productivity, Tools, Unix, Web Development

This is part 4 of a five-part series: Continue reading “Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 4: Cadaver Dissection” →

Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 5: When to Choose Bash

by Colin Lieberman
Posted in productivity, Tools, Unix, Web Development

This is part 5 of a five-part series: Continue reading “Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 5: When to Choose Bash” →

Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 3: Other Examples

by Colin Lieberman
Posted in productivity, Tools, Unix, Web Development

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Server-Side Swift: New Hero in Web Town

by Brian Schick
Posted in All, Mobile Development, Swift, Tools, Web Development

There’s a new hero in the world of web applications, services, and microservices: Server-Side Swift is making serious waves across the industry. At Beezwax, it’s changing how we approach and solve many typical, long-standing coding challenges.

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Large d3.js Application Development

by Ryan Simms
Posted in All, Data Visualization, Design, Front-end Development, JavaScript, Software Design, Tools, Web Development
“Code that belongs”. This is the mantra, the quest, of Beezwax Senior Developer Ryan Simms; which he discusses in this ten-part article on building a large-scale web application using d3.js. How to write code that fits the context intrinsically. The article focuses on specific techniques with the data visualization library, d3.js. But the lessons are broad. How do you make something fit — in ways that make it feel like it belongs?

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