Sunday, May 25, 2014

Collaborative foundation aims to boost MIPS adoption

A collaborative, nonprofit foundation has been started by a group of technology companies to boost the adoption of the MIPS processor architecture.

Imagination Technologies, Broadcom, Cavium, Ikanos, Ineda Systems, Ingenic Semiconductor, Lantiq, Nevales Networks, PMC and Qualcomm have founded "prpl," an open-source, community-driven foundation,

Imagination Technologies said Thursday. The company also separately announced that it will collaborate with Oracle to enhance Java for embedded and Internet of Things applications, and to optimize Java for the MIPS CPU architecture.

MIPS implementations are mostly used in embedded systems such as routers and video game consoles, for instance, which could make them particularly useful for the burgeoning Internet of Things market.

Imagination has been pushing to expand the use of MIPS chips since it bought the financially struggling MIPS Technologies in 2012. Currently, more than 3 billion MIPS units have shipped, according to the company.

Each member company will provide its particular expertise to the foundation's engineering groups. For instance, Qualcomm will focus on networking and build a community around OpenWrt, an OS based on the Linux kernel that is often used to route network traffic.

"Instead of every company doing the work individually, they all come together in prpl. They do the work and every company benefits from that work," Imagination spokesman Alexandru Voica said.

Prpl will offer open-source OS distributions for MIPS, including Android, CentOS, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu, essentially creating a repository for developers and others.

Working together in this way makes sense, said Richard Fichera, vice president and principal analyst of infrastructure and operations at Forrester Research. "As far as I can see, it is an intelligent strategy and program to boost MIPS, which has been under immense pressure from ARM for mobile device market share," he said.

Another focus of the foundation will be on enabling next-generation "data-center-to-device" portable software and virtualized architectures, Imagination said.

That strategy, however, is less to Fichera's liking. "MIPS lost its chance at the core data-center server market," he said, adding that he seriously doubts that anyone will invest in either silicon or systems to have another run at it.

"Any significant investment in a non-x86 server will be centered on ARM or possibly OpenPOWER rather than MIPS. However, MIPS is a perfectly good embedded compute resource, and is appearing in network-edge devices as programmable cores for both embedded network functions and as a user-programmable device," he added.

As for Imagination's collaboration with Oracle, the companies will work to bring broad Java support to 32-bit and 64-bit MIPS architectures for use in a broad range of applications including routers, other networking equipment, mobile devices and the Internet of Things, they said.

 

originally published at : news.techworld.com

Employers want Java skills more than anything else

Java development was the most sought-after software-building skill by employers searching Dice.com in the first quarter of 2014, the company said on Wednesday.

Employers searched Dice thousands of times to look for software developers, engineers, architects and leads, Dice President Shravan Goli said in a statement. "The number one request by a large margin: Java/J2EE," Goli said. "For a programming language that started to be commercialized about 20 years ago, its stranglehold on modern development is unshakable."

Following Java/J2EE as the most in-demand software development skills were .Net, C++, C#, senior development skills, SQL, HTML, C, Web and Linux. "Experience is clearly of value, with many hiring mangers seeking senior developers," Goli said. But new graduates should not fret, as hiring managers searching for "computer science" ranked number 33 on Dice's site -- a trend that should equate to demand for those with recent diplomas, he said. Dice's survey covered from January 1 to April 15.

For technologies specifically geared to Web development, JavaScript came in at 12th on Dice's list, followed by ASP.Net (17th), HTML5 (19th), PHP (20th), and CSS (32nd). (A recent report by WalletHub found Web application developer to be the best entry-level job.) Mobile platform skills were mostly ranked below Web skills in Dice's assessment, with Android ranking 31st and iOS coming in 35th place.

Looking into what the future holds, Dice anticipates increased demand for developers and designers with skills pertaining to wearable electronics, the Internet of Things, and drones and robots.

The job market in general is rosy for software developers, with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting a 2.8 percent unemployment rate for this sector in the first quarter, Dice said. This compares to 5 percent in the same quarter five years ago and 5.5 percent four years ago. Overall, Dice posted 80,784 available technology jobs on May 1, including 48,202 full-time positions.

originally published at InfoWorld.com

 

Thursday, May 22, 2014

The Methodology Doesn't Matter, It's Having One That Counts

Methodologies can get very religious. Should we be doing TDD? Should we use Waterfall? Should we have stand-up meetings? What sort of continuous delivery should we use?

A few years back I was diagnosed as having type 2 diabetes. At the time I was diagnosed I was not particularly overweight and my diet was not too unhealthy. But I was coming out of a time in my life where I had been overweight and I used to snack a lot. At one of the places where I had worked there had been a food table where you could help yourself to the food and my desk was right next to it. As I used to really enjoy my sweet food it and I didn’t do much exercise it was a health disaster waiting to happen. Now days I eat healthier, have fewer sugary foods and I also exercise regularly.

In my opinion not having a methodology is much like not having a healthy lifestyle. Your code becomes overweight with bug fixes, and getting the code out of the door, much like getting yourself out of bed when you are overweight, can be quite a chore.

I am a great believer in the idea that not only the way you write code, but also the process involved in the delivery of it are highly coupled to the quality of the code. So for me, having a methodology is like having an exercise regime. The methodology helps keep your code leaner and there is a greater chance of pushing the quality of your code higher.

With a healthy lifestyle it doesn’t matter what exercises you do as long as you do something, the same applies to your software development methodology.

It doesn’t matter which methodology you follow as long as you have one.

 

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

How to optimize your app’s layout on iOS 7

Whilst there is not necessarily a right way and a wrong way to design your app’s layout, there are some tricks you can use to make sure that the user experience is as optimal as possible.

Ample Space for Controls

We all know that smartphone screens are small, and iPhones are consistently on the lower end of the screen-size spectrum.

To optimize your app’s layout for iOS 7, try to make sure that your main, controllable elements are at least 44×44 points. This way, users will have no trouble performing basic tasks with one finger or one hand while they are on the go.

Draw User Focus to Main Elements

There are two simple ways to draw the user’s attention to the main elements of your app.

1) Place important items in the upper-left of the screen (i.e. the menu) , with less important items going in the bottom-right (i.e. terms & conditions, privacy policies)

2) Make important items larger than less-important items, since larger items tend to draw the eye more easily. Larger items are also easier to access on a touchscreen, so users can perform the most essential tasks quickly and easily

Communicate Groupings

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Effectively communicating which elements of your app go together can a make-or-break factor of your app’s layout. This can also be done in two ways:

1) Use alignment and indentation to organize your content and make it easier for users to discern which groups of content are related. For example, align any images or graphics with the text that they compliment. This is a cue to the reader that the picture is meant to associated with that text.

2) Consistent UI elements will also help users understand which elements belong together. A general rule of thumb is that elements that perform similar functions should also look similar. Any design inconsistencies could confuse the user and make them waste unnecessary time trying to figure things out.

Text Size

On the iPhone, users have the option of changing their default text-size setting across their device. While this is sometimes done for aesthetic reasons, many users actually use this feature due to visual impairments that make small text hard to read. If a user changes their default settings, they will expect your app to adhere to those settings as well.

For iOS 7, developers should consider adopting Dynamic Type, which will automatically adjust line spacing, line height, delineate between text types (heading, body, footer, etc…), and resize any text-size changes requested by the user.

Developers should also consider using a single font type throughout their app. This way, it will be easier for you to ensure that the font will render correctly at all different text sizes.

You should also consider making your app responsive to changes in text-size. For example, if you have a two-column, text-based app, you can make your layout shift to one column for any text-size larger than the default 17 points.

For more iOS 7 layout tips, visit Apple’s Developer Library!

 

Preference : developer-tech.com

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

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Thursday, May 15, 2014

45 Best Free Blogger Templates 2014

Blogspot is the first CMS i ever remember and the first i have used and that too for years before skipping to others due to limited resources back then. Recently blogspot community has evolved to a much higher scale and we can see templates released for blogger without any pause. Many sites give away a lite version of their paid template to us and it is a boon to the blogging community. Lite version is all we need to start our business by the way from scratch.

Most free blogger templates here are recent and many sites doesn’t even has the templates listed here as of right now. Some special releases has been informed and we have listed them here just for you. One, two , three column templates all of them are here even though with little effort and play we can alter the look of the template completely. 2013 has seen huge release of themes for blogspot compared to the last years. When i was using blogger there were almost no quality themes and i had to change website appearance by myself.

Please use this opportunity as in this modern day with rise in technology enthusiasts and themes coders we now see large number of free templates for the blogger community. Also share these newly found templates within your blogger community. The Download file contains xml file and you may have to import the xml to customize your blog. Importing theme xml file and restoring is child’s play as it works flawlessly without messing up the website contents. Enough said, we will continue to update this topic with clean & free blogger templatesreleased in 2013 and further so stay tuned. Share in your comments and add any newly found template as we will include theme here for you. Here are some responsive premium blogger templates 2014 for you.

Sorbet

A blogger template which seems to be inspired by wordpress hexa theme which i have used recently. This theme is clean and responsive with more focus on typography, content  sidebar.

Released: 30 March 2014

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Sorbet Blogger

Moments Blogger Template

A responsive personal blog style template with two columns for each navigation menu on the left and right sidebar.

Release on : 06 Feb 2014

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Moments

Typefocus

A simple two column template for blog-spot bloggers with nice typography and feature images. The sidebar and responsive design layout will inspire everyone.

Released: Jan 2014

Demo | Download

 

Typefocus Blogger

 

HaletanisLux

A magazine style blogger template with clear blog items, responsive designs, content slider, social buttons etc.

Created on : 24 Jan 2014

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HaletanisLux

Dieting

A dieting website template for blogger with unique slider and responsive design.

Created on: 21 March 2014

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Dieting Template

 

ShotMag – Minimalist Photoblog Blogger Template

A blogspot template file which has been crafted to perfection to suit travel, blog or toe-hr creative websites of your choice. A responsive design will let the website scale to any screen size also helping to create, modify the template.

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ShotMag

LepontoMag Free Blogger Template

LepontoMag Blogger Template is a Beautiful Business Blogger Template with 2 Columns, Right Sidebar, 3 Columns Footer, Featured Content Slider, Top Drop down Menus and Social Buttons.

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LepontoMag

SkyBlue

SkyBlue is a free blogger template with 1 column,responsive design, gallery-styled, fresh look, rounded corners, exclusive design for Blogger, footer columns etc.

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SkyBlue

FameMag – Blogger Template for News & Magazine

FameMag is a minimalist Blogger template for multi-purposes. You can use this blogspot template for writing a personal blog or invite your friend to write as a magazine website.

DemoDownload

FameMag

Magazine Easy News

Easy News is so clean, flexible and has a fully responsive Blogger Template! This template gives you an awesome tool to launch a daily news or magazine website. Easy News has a lot of awesome features, check them out below!

DemoDownload

Easy News

Educator

Educator Blogger Template is utterly stylish yet decent and sober theme designed for BlogSpot based websites. We have designed this template for all those colleges, universities and other institutions who want to have an amazingly professional website with not a lot of expenses.

DemoDownload

educator

Flat Mag Responsive Blogger Template

Flat Mag Responsive Blogger Template is a multi-purpose straight Blogger template precisely designed for multimedia, news bulletin, Entertainment and Technology blogs. With elegant green color scheme, Fla tMag gives you visitors the experience of their life as they go though the responsive and flexible design.

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FlatMag

Vortex Responsive Blogger Template

Vortex is 100% responsive, high functioning and multimedia magazine style blogger template designed for richly professional bloggers and webmasters. It has some efficient features and functionalities that would certainly make you go gaga about this template. Most importantly, this template looks different on each and every device. For example, check it on your PC, Laptop, iPad and even your smartphones you will find all layouts a slight different from others, we call it the excellent designing. Other than that, it has some noteworthy features which are listed below.

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vortex

Fabric

Fabric Blogger template is a simply, and minimalistic theme presenting a woven style that is pleasingly unique among modern web design, Fabric is a premium looking blogger template with the great typography which brings out the true beauty of the Theme.

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fabric

Siren Free Blogger Template

Siren Blogger Template is a xml blogger theme is a blog style post and have very nice use of intro. This is very nice template with is a very good.

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Siren

Free Chalkboard template

An old classic styled theme made for new generation monitors as it is fully responsive. The standard two column website will be interesting to see as well.

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Classic Chalkboard

Plazify Responsive Blogger Template

Plazify is a fully responsive magazine template (you can check yourself by resizing your browser) has 2 sidebars and clean layout area.

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Plazify

NewsMagazine – Three Column Blogger Template

This Is a Two Column Blogger Template with Left and Right Sidebars.The Template Colors Are mainly White, Black, Grey and Blue.

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NewsMagazine

TechMatters – Two Column Blogger Template

This Is a Two Column Blogger Template with a Right Sidebar. This xml blogger template will suit great for your technology blog.

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TechMatters

Sentify Responsive Blogger Template

Sentify is super clean and modern design make it suitable for any type of website: creative, agency, portfolio, blog and many more, It is a very powerful, super clean and responsive design. Coded with care in HTML5 & CSS3, Well designed layout area of sentiy also.

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Sentify

Codify Magazine Blogger Template

This is a modern magazine blogger template, which can look great on coding blogs, news blogs, including amazing notification bar.

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Codify

Central Blogger

A magazine template which is simple in design and will suit your design website which is updated daily.

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Central

Cool Three Column Blogger Template

This is another Template with a Left and Right Sidebar and it looks gorgeous straight away. Chilling template for your cool website must try.

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CoolMax

Free Blogger Template – Responsive Portfolio

Responsive Portfolio is a free, professionally designed template for your Blogger site with many useful features. Developed for those who want to showcase their portfolio, it includes the ability to display a jQuery carousel, and the whole template adjusts according to the size of the device it is viewed on.

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Personal Portfolio

RoadRunner Blogger Template

Roadrunner blogger template is a wide theme, designed for users who used to add tons of Ads on their blog. 3 column template with a wide post area. We’ve added 2 navigation bar on left side-bar and a fixed navigation area on top.

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RoadRunner

Tech Blog

We’re releasing a simple (little bit stylish) template which is named as Tech Shadow for all the blogger users.  Totally for tech blogs and menu at the bottom still impress me.

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Tech Shadow

Galauness Grid Blogger Template

Galauness is free premium blogger template with Elegant, Clean and Minimalist Design representing a grid system this theme can help you for many purposes.

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Galauness

 

COM4ME Under Construction Blogger Template

COM4ME is a simple and under construction blog blogger template. its design using blue and black color, there have auto count down option, you can use this theme before start blogging.

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under construction

Catalog e-commerce Grid template

Another template with grid styled layout which will impress your visitors for sure. This catalog theme will be useful for e-commerce website due to its grid style and adding cart options will be very easy with blogger.

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Catalogspot

 

PureZ Blogger Template

PureZ is a magazine style clean blogger template. its 2 column blogger template with 1 right sidebar and 4 column footer area.

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PureZ

Mangos

A two column template for magazine and news websites as it is compatibly with every browser.

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Mangos

Blue Blogger Template.

A blue & chilly magazine template specially made for blogger and is free to download at any time. Take your time and grab this special  two column theme.

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Blue blogger

Minute Grid Template

Minuet is a grid based Blogger template with awesome parallax header and tablet optimized layout. This template is coded in best practice and featuring a clean, modern, and minimal design, packed with many possibilities from Template Designer.

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Minute grid

Timeline Blogspot

A timeline inspired template which everyone will love. Using this for blog or news will also bring great results.

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Timeline

K-44 White

This responsive template is probably one of the most beautiful blogger template available to us till date. The template has massive number of unique features which brings the user interaction at its best.

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K-44 White

True Pixel

The template has a elegant look and is very attractive. This template has many in built features in it and is suitable for all type of blogs.

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True Pixel

Flat Blue Magazine Template

A clean flat magazine template colored in blue is just perfect for latest designs trends.

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flat blog

Movie Blogger Template

A movie blog with free downloads. I guess free to provide freely available movies.

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movie

Posted Blogger Template

A premium looking magazine / news theme which will make your website look clean and nice.

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Posted

Flat Green Blogger Template

A green flat template with horizontal layout on the front page make this perfect for photography authors.

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Spring green

Kont Magazine Blogger Template

Making a professional blog with these magazine / blog template wont get any easier. Suitable for tech blogs, gaming community etc.

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Kontify

Metro Blogger Template

Metro reminds me of inspiration site dedicated on showcasing user interface designs of new apps, tablets etc. A unique style of magazine of magazine blog including subscription and sliders.

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Metrofy

Montric Magazine Blogger Template

A perfect top class magazine template for blogger, no questions asked. This fully packed template consists of  functional scripts designed just enough to fit in the overall Blogger Magazine and with a clean flat design it makes the website stand out.

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Montric