2018 has been a year of exploration and experimentation in software development for the CTL Development team. We shared our professional and personal experiences developing educational technology, and lessons learned here on CompilED. This is a list of the posts we wrote last year.

Walking past the round-the-block lines for the iPad 2 prompted me to reflect on the long-term educational significance of the tablet. The futurists who predicted the rise of mobile will most likely claim that these tablets fulfill their vision. Tech pundits insist that this new form-factor goes beyond superficial cosmetics and represents a transformation in computing. What should we make of the hype?

This is a strongly-opinioned fly-by review of the evolving web framework ecosystem for Node.js.

Gource is a fun tool that takes your source repository, and outputs a video showing your developers as little gnomes dancing around the source tree building the program. I think it’s a great visualization to demonstrate to the less technical members of our organization and the world, what a programmer does on a daily basis.