A couple of days ago I had a chat with a friend, an ex-Telerik employee, who was the driving force behind JustDecompile product. We discussed briefly the recent Telerik announcement that open-sourced JustDecompile has been retired. This the moment when you say “Wait a moment! JustDecompile is not open-source project”. This is correct. However JustDecompileEngine, …
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Playing with Z3 Theorem Prover
Once again it’s Christmas time which, to me, means time for leisure. While I am not an avid gamer, sometimes I play simple, non-engaging games on my phone. One of the games in particular is Calculator: The Game. It is a very simple game and your goal is to calculate a number within some operation count …
NativeScript release life cycle
I am glad to announce that yesterday we released NativeScript 2.4. This is all good, but in this post I would like to discuss the future. If you take a look at the next GitHub milestone you will see this So, why 2.5.0-RC? There are many reasons for this. Firstly, it is hard to make …
Lessons Learned From OSS
It’s more than 3 years since I started working on NativeScript. Working on an OSS project is different from anything I did before so I decided to share some of my experience. Here are some of the lessons I learned working on OSS and as usually happens all these lessons were discovered by many other …
How Android Instant Run Works
Today I installed Android Studio 2.0 Beta 7 and I really enjoyed one of its new features, namely Instant Run. We built a similar feature for NativeScript, named LiveSync, so I was curious to how Instant Run feature works. The first thing I noticed is instant-run.jar placed in <my project>/build/intermediates/incremental-runtime-classes/debug directory. This library provides Server class …
Thirty Years After
I found this wonderful Turbo Pascal ad while browsing InfoWorld 3 Jun 1985 issue. With more than 250,000 users worldwide Turbo Pascal is the industry’s de facto standard. Turbo Pascal is praised by more engineers, hobbyists, students and professional programmers than any other development environment in the history of microcomputing. And yet, Turbo Pascal is …
Software Performance Engineering
Every time we build software we have functional requirements. Maybe these functional requirements are not well defined but they are good enough to start prototyping and you refine them as you go. After all, the functional requirements describe what you have to build. Sometimes, you have additional requirements that describe how your software system should …
What’s New in Chakra JavaScript Engine
A few weeks ago I decided to install Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview on my Nokia Lumia 630 and played a little bit with it. Since then, I have completely forgotten about it until yesterday when I saw a notification for pending software update (10.0.12562.84). So I grabbed the opportunity to see what changed in …
NativeScript Performance – Part 2
The last two weeks I was busy with measuring and optimizing the performance of NativeScript for Android. My main focus was the application startup time and I would like to share some good news. Results Let’s first see the results and then I will dig into the details. As in the previous tests I uses …
On NativeScript Performance
Overview Last week NativeScript made it into public beta and just for a few days we got tremendous amount of feedback. One question that came up over and over again was, “How do NativeScript Apps Perform”? In this post, I want to explain the details behind performance and share some great news with you about …