How to Set Up Flutter With Android Studio on Linux

November 12, 2021

Flutter is a Google development platform that lets you write cross-platform mobile apps using one codebase. Apps are developed in Dart, a typed and object-oriented language that compiles to either native code or JavaScript. This means you can target Android, iOS, desktop operating systems, and the web with a single Flutter project. Read More »

MongoDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database engine that’s gained popularity with developers for its JSON-like storage model. MongoDB often provides a more direct mapping between code and persisted data, facilitating rapid iteration and helping address the sizable impedance mismatch of traditional SQL databases. Read More »

Data is one of the most valuable commodities in the world, and it’s not hard to see why. From marketing to genomics, the analysis of large sets of data leads to predictive models, which steer to favorable outcomes for the business. The more data you use, the better those models are, which means the better outcomes they can produce. Of course, this means that moving data from one place to another is a crucial skill to have for any engineer, but it’s not always as easy as it sounds. Read More »

Open source programming is all about being able to make your own changes to code others have written. To do that, you must branch off from the main repository, commonly called “forking” the repo, but it can be complicated if you don’t do it properly. Read More »

On November 15, 1971, Intel publicly debuted the first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004, with an advertisement in Electronic News. Fifty years later, here’s a look at its legacy—and how the 4004 stacks up against a modern Intel powerhouse. Read More »

I have over 100 devices connected to my home network, and that grows all the time as I expand my smart home’s capabilities. What I didn’t know was how to protect my smart home from any vulnerabilities those devices introduced. And that’s what the Firewalla Gold promises to do. Read More »