Monday, October 31, 2016

Location Based Services - Roaming Soon Near You

The buzz has been building for years now, and this trend has probably taken strong roots and is ready for an explosive outbreak.

Location-based services are not new. We've had Foursquare long enough that they've had time to pivot and rebrand their service into Swarm. Some observers believed it would be the Next Big Thing after Twitter, but somehow it never fully caught fire. (Although I confess that I'm a dedicated Swarm player and I do appreciate my friends who participate. I get an interesting and unique perspective on their adventures in life.)

Here's what happens next in this world...

Reduce to Dashboard

When developers use DataWeave, they often come to rely on the reduce() function to fill in any gaps left by the standard Core library. Altho...