Predicting March Madness, JavaScript Mobile Apps, & More…

by Pat Schaber

Happy April, and welcome to yet another edition of the dev digest. This week, we look at the way software is used to predict March Madness, the most asked-about languages on GitHub, and the top trending GitHub repos. All that and more of the best links on the web this week, here for your reading pleasure.

Top Stories

• Are you one of the 47 million Americans with bets placed on March Madness? You might be interested in Machine Learning Madness and the AI models competing to predict the tournament with the most accuracy
• Software used by airlines across the country failed this week, leading to delays in hundreds of flights

Dev Corner

• You can alias common commands in git, but you can also alias branch names
• There are now multiple ways to build mobile apps using JavaScript — while not natively supported on any platform yet, you can quickly get existing web apps ported to mobile
• Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most-asked about language on Stack Overflow
• The Go language recently released its 2018 user survey — half of respondents use Go every day, and web development and devops dominate its use cases
• Here’s a rundown of the top trending repositories in March on Github
• Having trouble keeping all those design patterns straight? Here’s a quick breakdown of strategy vs. factory and when to use each

Professional Advice

• Poor team alignment impacts the outcome of a project, and good project managers are more important now than ever
• In a new podcast, get a behind-the-scenes look at Basecamp security practices and what they’re planning beyond simple password-based authentication and permissions

Tips from Intertech

• We recently did a deep dive on the Spring Framework and its history

Have a Laugh

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Originally published at Intertech Blog.