Articles by Nate Swanner

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  Russia, China Top Worldwide Developer Rankings

  [caption id="attachment_127949" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Developer Environment[/caption] Have you ever wondered where the best coders on Earth come from? Is it a country, or a particular…
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  New UX Course Wants to Land You Design Jobs

  User experience (UX) designers are important to tech, but the path to becoming one isn’t always so clear. To help those passionate about UX achieve their career goals, InVision and General Assemb…
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  Should Developers Care About Wearables?

  [caption id="attachment_134099" align="aligncenter" width="683"] Fitbit wearables[/caption] Wearables are still around, although events such as Jawbone’s implosion and the sell-off of Pebble some…
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  Beating Ageism In Tech: It's About Perspective

  [caption id="attachment_138760" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Ageism In The Workplace[/caption] Getting old is tough enough, but it’s especially hard when you don’t feel like you fit in with t…
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  Apple Adds Touch Bar Support to WebKit

  [caption id="attachment_138714" align="aligncenter" width="2550"] Safari Technology Preview Adds Touch Bar[/caption] Apple is adding a new feature to its Safari Technology Preview that could chan…
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  Google Devs Can Tap Into Assistant via Home Hub

  [caption id="attachment_136056" align="aligncenter" width="719"] Google Home[/caption] Chatbots and artificial intelligence (A.I.) have taken over the digital landscape of late. To help encourage…
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  Is It Time For Your Business To Accept Apple Pay?

  [caption id="attachment_137345" align="aligncenter" width="1657"] Apple Pay On macOS Sierra[/caption] Without too much fanfare, Apple Pay and its corresponding Wallet app have become a robust e-c…
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  Gender Pay Gap Shrinks as Attitudes Change: Study

  [caption id="attachment_138662" align="aligncenter" width="6075"] Gender Pay Gap[/caption] Viewed in broad scope, just about every study shows that the pay differential between men and women is s…
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  Pebble Wants Developers to Follow It to FitBit

  [caption id="attachment_138699" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Pebble Smartwatches[/caption] With the news that smartwatch-maker Pebble's assets have been purchased by FitBit came some really…
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  Perfect Assistant Makes Server-Side Swift Easy

  [caption id="attachment_138622" align="aligncenter" width="1592"] Perfect Server Side Swift[/caption] Apple’s Swift programming language already has a variety of use cases, and a growing number o…