Can you name a Design Pattern? A Design Pattern? You mean from the '90s?
Clean Coder BlogLook at this graph, which I took from this blog by Peter Knego. Peter was showing the relationship between age and reputation on stack overflow. The correlation is unmistakable. The older the programmer, the better the reputation, by far.
Introducing: Flickr PARK or BIRDWe at Flickr are not ones to back down from a challenge. Especially when that challenge comes in webcomic form. And especially when that webcomic is xkcd. So, when we saw this xkcd comic we thought, “we’ve got to do that”: In fact, we already had the technology in place to do these things.
Print out the maximum depth of recursion allowedKarl Seguin tweeted the following earlier this week: "An interview question I sometimes ask: Write code that prints out the maximum depth of recursion allowed." This question is interesting for a couple of reasons.
Performance Series - How poor performance of HttpContent.ReadAsAsync can affect your API/siteThis has been a revelation - what I am about to reveal here, deeply surprised me - it might surprise you too. This post is mainly about consuming restful APIs using HttpClient and when the payload is JSON.
You Too May Be A Victim Of DeveloparalysisDear developers: Do you feel insecure because you’re only fluent in a mere eight programming languages used across three families of devices? Does exposure to yet another JavaScript framework make you shudder and wince? Have you postponed a pet project because you couldn’t figure out which cloud
Beware of Productivity Tools by Mark SeemannThis article discusses developer productivity tools. Once in a while I get into a heated discussion about the merits and demerits of ReSharper. As these discussions usually happen on Twitter, the 140 character limit isn't conducive to a nuanced debate. That's what I want to start here, not a rant.
ffs sslI just set up SSLTLS on my web site. Everything can be had via https://wingolog.org/, and things appear to work. However the process of transitioning even a simple web site to SSL is so clownshoes bad that it's amazing anyone ever does it.
Sweet AlertSweet Alert A beautiful replacement for Javascript's "Alert" So... What does it do? Here’s a comparison of a standard error message. The first one uses the built-in alert-function, while the second is using sweetAlert. Normal alert Code: alert("Oops...
Four excellent articles on designing, developing, and maintaining complete software systems.We suffer from an embarrassment of riches when it comes to programming idioms and tactics from the level of a single line of code up to an individual object in isolation.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.