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Recently, I have become interested in using RethinkDB as my preferred document based database. Although RethinkDB and MongoDB have their own similarities and differences, it’s RethinkDB’s real-time web feature and their query language that has impressed me the most. If you have been following my...

Streams are a very powerful concept. They are programming constructs which move data between objects and services without having to manually loop through the data, which is one reason why they are so popular. Twitter has streams, NodeJS has streams, Java 8 has streams, and even RSS feeds can be represented...

Internet of Things is all about building connected devices, applications and services rapidly. Software and hardware engineers are equally involved and, with the right tools, it is easy to build a working prototype in minutes. And this is exactly what we did. We chose our favorite board, the Arduino...

As part of our AngularJS series we invited Isaiah Grey of Stamplay to show us how to build a collaborative shopping list with PubNub and their service. Stamplay is a service for building application backends using a variety of services. Payment processors, user authentication, and text messaging, can...

I love IFTTT. Frankly speaking, that’s how I deal with everything in programming. If this happens, I will do this, otherwise I will do that. Plus, as a developer, we can’t survive without conditionals in our programs. One of their “recipes” (that’s what they call a combination of apps to complete a purpose)...

Since we wrote this post, we’ve made some changes to our what we do, and what we don’t do with WebRTC. Learn more here. WebRTC is becoming widely adopted by top companies. If you don’t know it already, WebRTC is a free, open-source project that provides simple APIs for creating Real-Time...

This week, Jordan Zucker, iOS maestro at PubNub, shows us just how simple it is to get PubNub up and running in a brand-new iOS project using CocoaPods.  Here’s the rundown: Download the iOS Getting Started Git Repository from the video CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C...

This week Josh interviews Circuitbeard, creator of the adorable Petduino electronic pet. Petduino is an Arduino derived kit that you can assemble and program yourself. Meet Matt Brailsford, a.k.a. Circuitbeard Josh: Hi Circuitbeard. I’m guessing that’s not your real name, right? Matt: Haha, no, my real...