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
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
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
An ode to the Commodore 64 – Chiara Russo
This is my Commodore 64 and it's because of this that my passion for IT was born. With this I wrote my first lines of code. Who of you started in the same way, with a Commodore 64? Many, I'm sure! The Commodore 64 was the protagonist of an era, … Read more
Election technology: making voting great again?
Boris in No. 10, Putin in the Kremlin, Trump in the White House. Our voting decisions in national elections have an enormous impact, for better or for worse.But how to vote in an election is changing across the world, thanks to digital … Read more
Free coding lessons tackling women’s “imposter syndrome” in tech
Anna Brailsford, CEO at Code First: Girls, is training an army of coding women to infiltrate the "boys' club" of tech.Coding the future: Anna Brailsford What is Code First: Girls? Code First: Girls is one of the largest communities of … Read more
Jobs in artificial intelligence and robotics top LinkedIn list for 2020
Artificial intelligence specialist and robotics engineer are the fastest-growing jobs in the US, according to LinkedIn.The annual Emerging Jobs Report highlights the skills associated with these roles and the cities and industries in which … Read more
Dear recruiter: How can I get a job in tech with a disability?
Business consultant and disability advocate Neil Barnfather MBE tells us about what it's like having a disability in today's job market. Looking for a job is not always an easy task. Couple this endeavour with both practical and societal … Read more
Codemotion Milan Shares how you can Start and Progress Your Career.
This year's Codemotion Milan included a significant focus on how devs can start their career, build their skills, and progress through their career cycle. We enjoyed talks at the conference from a number of people about their career story and … Read more
Codemotion Milan Shares the Value of Community
Milan is a hotbed of community groups, building developing schools in English and Italian. We spoke to some of those involved to find out about the challenges, opportunities, and what insights they have to share with others interested in starting … Read more
.NET Async/Await and its catches
Since the introduction of the Task-based Asynchronous Pattern (or TAP) with .NET 4.0 programmers have enjoyed a simpler and streamlined approach to asynchronous programming in .NET, improving performance and readability of their code. If you are … Read more
Naturally born reactive systems
Modern applications are required to do many tasks at the same time, in the optimal way, and be very quick to respond to consumers’ input and expectations. Moreover, software needs to adapt to changing scenarios, in a consistent and resilient … Read more
Conversation AI is the new UX
The use of chatbots is a fast-growing business that meets the needs of all stakeholders involved. According to some recent researches, 80% of custom interactions can be resolved by well-designed bots (Accenture), 60% of the consumers want easier … Read more
Kotlin loves React
In the beginning were the webmasters, who knew about PHP and JavaScript. Then front-end and back-end tribes, and each followed their own path, differentiating and specialising. Finally, new programming languages and frameworks arrived, with the … Read more
Codemotion Milan 2019 Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing
This year Codemotion Milan celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo mission to the moon. We were joined by Don Eyles, who worked on the Apollo Project from 1966 through 1972 and on the NASA space program until 1998 as a computer scientist at … Read more
Using AI for developing OTT platforms
Interest in artificial intelligence (AI) is growing day-by-day. This is confirmed by the ubiquitous presence of AI algorithms in a plethora of applications. Gianni Rosa Gallina, Senior Software Engineer at Deltatre, delivered an interesting speech at … Read more
How using cryptography helps to reduce the attack surface on data
Hi, I’m Anastasiia Voitova and I gave a talk about cryptography and risk management at Codemotion Milan 2018. I am product engineer in cryptographic software company Cossack Labs – we create developer-friendly software to protect data and to help … Read more
Software operability: a DevOps cornerstone
The software industry often seems to live in dichotomies and contrasts: business against developers, developers against testers, designers against business and so on, towards infinity and beyond. When a particular activity within the software … Read more
How MobX helps you manage your state
Managing state is one of the hottest and somewhat controversial topics in the frontend development world. A lot of effort has been made by several teams across the world to address state management with a clean and simple approach, creating libraries … Read more