I’ve just released a Release Candidate of the latest Magic, and I need BETA testers to help me weed out bugs. If you find bugs, and you document them with a reproducible in the GitHub forums, I’ll throw you a license of Magic free of charge. You can watch the following video to understand what …
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The cost of a line of code
As you can see from my previous article about this subject, one developer can produce roughly 563 lines of code per month. In Cyprus a software developer will cost you on average €40,000 per year to hire. If you break the numbers down, this implies that each line of code you have in your organisation …
Developer productivity
According to studies in the subject, the average software developer can produce between 325 LOC and 750 LOC per month. LOC implies of course Lines Of Code. If we are to be kind, and round upwards, this becomes 563 LOC per month on average. There are 22 working days per month, hence 563 divided by …
Identifying the strongest crypto algorithms
Approximately 10-15 years ago, NIST, an American organisation responsible for standardising technology standards, created a document describing how to correctly implement Elliptic Curve cryptography. This document became “the standard document” for others wanting to implement EC cryptography. Some 5 years later, a really smart guy realised there was an “error” in the document. You see, …
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Caring more about process than product
Some 500 years ago, before the inventing of the printing press, monks would copy-write the Bible, to create new copies. It would take about 1-2 years for a monk to create a copy of the Bible, and the price of a copy was equivalent to the amount of gold you had to invest to buy …
How much of your job is CRUD?
If you’re a software developer, you know what CRUD means. But do you know how much of your job is actually creating CRUD endpoints, CRUD UX, etc? In my work with Magic, I have realised that it creates a shitload of code as it is scaffolding a database. In fact, the Sakila database distributed by …
Getting more out of your ForEx software developers
The average software developer earns about 30-50.000 EUROs per year in Cyprus. Most medium sized ForEx companies have some 5-10 software developers. This results in an annual cost of roughly 200.000 to 400.000 EUROs per year. Most of the time, these developers are typically doing boring and repetitive work. What if I told you that …
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The Early Bird
It’s commonly known that the early bird gets the golden nugget. To reflect this wisdom, I am currently selling Magic for a ridiculously inexpensive price. The idea is to allow some few dozens of developers on board for pennies, realising they’ll give me valuable feedback, for then to slowly and incrementally increase the price over …
New version of Magic Released
We just now created a new Release of Magic, version 8.1.21. The most important feature, besides a couple of bug fixes in magic.lambda, is that Magic now will allow anonymous access to the frontend CRUD forms, where the backend doesn’t require authentication for its read endpoint.
Win a Free Magic License
For a limited time, we’ve decided to give away 5 free license keys. The rules are as follows; You share a link to the main Magic website, and you somehow get at least 5 interactions, such as comments, likes, re-shares, etc – And you send us proof of it at info@servergardens.com – And you’ll participate …
