Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have allowed many companies to develop algorithms and tools to automatically generate artificial (but realistic) 3D or 2D images. Such algorithms are part of a research area … Read more
5G pushes video-as-a-service and e-Sports
Media and Entertainment in the 5G era are an ecosystem of ecosystems ruled by one or more AIs that will choose the best videos, and e-sports contents. Mixed reality will change entertainment forever.Trento University has recently jumped over Siena to … Read more
John Romero: 25 years of DOOM!
At Codemotion Milan 2018, we celebrate the 25th birthday of one of the most significant and influential titles in video game history: DOOM.The creator of this iconic videogame, John Romero, started developing games in 1980,then he co-founders Id … Read more
Flutter for Android Developers explained by Faisal Abid
Flutter is one of the most interesting technologies among the new trends in mobile software development. Thus, it is no surprise that Codemotion Milan 2018 included a talk about Flutter in its agenda. Such talk was delivered by Faisal Abid, Google … Read more
GraphQL testing with Karate
Web APIs have become one of the most common solutions for providing services and data to very heterogeneous clients, especially from the era of Web 2.0, with the widespread of mobile technologies. In this context, it is no surprise that architectural … Read more
Machine learning as a service – serving reusable ML models
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are huge topics at the moment. So, when I saw the title of this talk at Codemotion Amsterdam 2019 I was intrigued. The talk was given by three developers from ING, who build components for the rest of the … Read more
A simple contract in Solidity
After choosing the best IDE to develop our first smart contract, we will now write some actual code. This is part three of a series on how to create an ERC-20 token. If you want to begin from scratch, please read part one and part two of this … Read more
Azure functions & Azure Durable functions
In the Serverless world, Azure Functions are a complete solution to create a small piece of code that runs without worrying about preparing a whole infrastructure to host it. In this article, we will talk about Microsoft Azure Functions and Microsoft … Read more
Build your pipeline project with… style!
How many of you are afraid of Cascade Style Sheet, also known as CSS? Honestly, I am really scared of it, maybe because I’m not a designer and my ability on computer graphics is not so good to make me feel comfortable with CSS. However, when we are … Read more
How to Solve 5 Common Career Challenges for Developers
It's January, and most of you have probably enjoyed a break from work over the festive season. Less time coding and more time gaming or film watching. All that time with colleagues is replaced with family, friends and pets rather than coworkers. But … Read more
Fantastic Data and Where to Find Them
In 2016 Richard Lee was applying for a passport online in New Zealand when the system objected to the image he uploaded: “subject’s eyes are closed”. Richard is an Asian male and actually his eyes in the photo were open, but the machine learning … Read more
Are you a Team Manager or a Servant?
Team management and leadership are hot topics in project management. Dr Alfredo Morresi spoke at Codemotion Rome 2019 about the differences between management and leadership, the servant style of leadership and the challenges to the role of the team … Read more
Content and templates in HTML
Creating HTML templates in the context of Web programming is a very common task both on the server and on the client side. Traditionally, on the client side, this task is assigned to libraries like handlebars or mustache and similar. These libraries … Read more
5G: Edge computing is the key to performances
Edge computing is the key enabler to 5G and its cloud-based structure. The experts of Cnit (Italian Inter-University Center for Telecoms) explained how during the 5G Italy event. This new approach is very challenging to explain, so let's start with a … Read more
System Administrator’s DOs and DON’Ts: interview with Kenneth Hess
It is quite clear to all that a System Administrator's most important skill is problem solving. Hence, it can be a very stressful job, especially when there is little time to analyse the problem and find a solution. A lot depends on this role. So … Read more
Sacrificing Code Quality to hit Deadlines and Other Developer Team Dilemmas
Developers are under a lot of pressure to produce quality software and to do it quickly. But new research from Diffblue conducted by Vanson Bourne positions these as competing demands. 300 participants were surveyed who work in software development, … Read more
Vibrational energy: big data and small devices
A functional first-level framework to provide a service to users as an app. Let’s see the case for seismic data from both Italy-based and US-based open data collections. We are living in a highly vibrating world. The knowledge of many vibrations can … Read more
Solidity, “hello world” with the Blockchain language
In a previous article, we introduced the basic concepts of the Ethereum Blockchain, including a quick overview of the ERC-20 tokens. In this article, we will dive into Solidity, the programming language used to interact with the Ethereum Blockchain. … Read more
How Oracle Uses Lego, IoT, and Microservices to Build a Programmable Smart City
At this year's Codemotion Rome, Gabriele Provinciali, Oracle Solution Architect, has presented Proxima City, a project focused on smart city IoT and microservices to improve our city and lifestyle. Let's take a look how Proxima City could … Read more
When Lambdas take control: The service of serverless
The serverless paradigm is an emerging software developing model. It is very useful in many cases, for both brand-new instances such as IoT development and as integration to existing architectures without touching the old code. It is offered by all … Read more