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Artificial Intelligence

If software development were a race, AI wins every time

We’ve undertaken experiments to explore the impact of GenAI tools on developer productivity, revealing a 37% improvement in productivity (speed), however, this result is a misrepresentation of what it means to be productive as a developer. This article delves more deeply, beyond punchy metrics, to explore the overall experience of working with these entirely new tools. We discuss where these tools are most effective, the challenge of quality code, the learning curve and much more.
Colin Eberhardt, Paul Graham, Lisa Perrett, Yotaka Blowers · 18th  Dec 2023 · 15 min read
Sustainability

Conscientious Computing - facing into big tech challenges

The tech industry has driven incredibly rapid innovation by taking advantage of increasingly cheap and more powerful computing – but at what unintended cost? What collateral damage has been created in our era of "move fast and break things"? Sadly, it's now becoming apparent we have overlooked the broader impacts of our technological solutions. This blog is the start of a new series that explores what we can do as technologists to consider and reduce the impact of the tech we create.
Oliver Cronk · 26th  Oct 2023 · 7 min read
Tech
The world of LESS
Luke Page, one of the project leads, gives an introduction to less.
Luke Page · 16th  Nov 2012 · 11 min read
Tech
Ray Wenderlich and My Adventures in iOS
The technologies that we use to write applications for our end users are changing at a frightening pace!
Colin Eberhardt · 12th  Nov 2012 · 1 min read
Tech
Async, where can I use it?
With the recent release of Windows 8 and VS 2012, you've probably heard of the bold move in the WinRT API to only offer asynchronous versions of operations which take any significant time and the corresponding async/await feature in C#5 and VB11.
Nicholas Wolverson · 7th  Nov 2012 · 4 min read
Tech
Integrating Knockout and jQueryMobile
This blog post looks at the issues regarding integration of KnockoutJS and jQueryMobile, and provides a simple worked example - a Twitter Search application - where the two technologies play nicely together!
Colin Eberhardt · 23rd  Oct 2012 · 7 min read
Tech
EdBus: Public Transport Locator App
I've been working on a Windows Store application called EdBus, as part of the CodeProject AppInnovation contest.
Andrew Aylett · 19th  Oct 2012 · 1 min read
Tech
Dispatches from DDDNorth 2
Last weekend I traveled to Bradford for the second DDDNorth conference - a community-organised developer event which featured some excellent speakers.
Sam Hogarth · 15th  Oct 2012 · 5 min read
Tech
JSConf EU 2012
Hot on the heels of Reject.js was JSConf EU, a weekend conference about, well, JavaScript!
Chris Price · 12th  Oct 2012 · 8 min read
Tech
Clearer - A Gesture-Driven Windows 8 To-Do Application
A couple of days ago a published a new article on CodeProject, this latest article tackles the migration of a gesture-drive application from Windows Phone to Windows 8.
Colin Eberhardt · 12th  Oct 2012 · 1 min read
Tech
Reject.js
Last Thursday I headed to Berlin for Reject.js, a community JavaScript conference organised to coincide with JSConf.eu.
Chris Price · 10th  Oct 2012 · 3 min read
Tech
PDF Generation and Printing in .NET
In this post I'm going to talk about creating PDF documents in C#.
Rolf Baxter · 5th  Oct 2012 · 13 min read
Tech
Toob - London Underground travel app
Toob is a London Underground travel app for Windows 8 that I am designing and developing for CodeProject's App Innovation Contest. It is currently a work in progress but I have written an article introducing the application and going through some useful technical information for anyone interested in writing HTML5 applications for Windows 8.
Graham Odds · 4th  Oct 2012 · 1 min read
Tech
TypeScript versus Closure
How does Microsoft's TypeScript, the new kid on the block, compare to Google's Closure?
Chris Price · 2nd  Oct 2012 · 4 min read
Tech
Converting an HTML5 App to a Native App with Titanium
In this post Colin Eberhardt's Property Finder app gets another outing, but this time with a native twist.
Chris Price · 1st  Oct 2012 · 7 min read
Tech
Picker Style Number Animation with jQuery and CSS3
This post describes a jQuery plugin which performs "picker style" animations between numbers using CSS3 transitions and transforms.
Mark Rhodes · 26th  Sep 2012 · 6 min read
Tech
Just what is the CSS 3D perspective property?
Most of us have had a play with CSS3 3D transforms, stacked a few elements, rotated them, maybe even made a cube out of them.
Chris Price · 19th  Sep 2012 · 1 min read
Tech
Making the most out of JavaScript Intellisense in VS2012
Intellisense for JavaScript has always felt to me like an unfinished addition to Visual Studio, something that promises so much but doesn't deliver for larger projects.
Chris Price · 18th  Sep 2012 · 1 min read
Tech
Is the Dashboard Pattern Dead?
A look at how the Android design patterns have shifted over time
Sam Hogarth · 10th  Sep 2012 · 6 min read
Tech
You can build feature-rich apps with HTML5, but should you?
HTML5 versus native (iOS:Obj-C, Android:Java) mobile development is a hot topic at the moment, with Facebook's ditching of a hybrid HTML5/Obj-C app in favour of an Obj-C-only app the latest blow to land.
Chris Price · 29th  Aug 2012 · 3 min read
Tech
Gesture-Driven To Do List Article Wins CodeProject Monthly Competition
I have just found out that my article "A Gesture-Driven Windows Phone To-Do List" won first place in the July 2012 best mobile article category.
Colin Eberhardt · 29th  Aug 2012 · 1 min read
Tech
Property Finder - A Cross-platform HTML5 Mobile App
A while back, when PhoneGap for Windows Phone was still in beta, I created Property Finder, an application for searching UK property listings.
Colin Eberhardt · 23rd  Aug 2012 · 1 min read

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