Atlassian Summit 2014 is done and dusted! 2,300 hangovers have cleared up and the Atlassian crew have finally caught up on some sleep – everyone except our video crew, who have spent the last couple of weeks post-producing more than 100 track sessions and pumping them up to YouTube and Slideshare.
Getters/Setters. Evil. Period.There is an old debate, started in 2003 by Allen Holub in this Why getter and setter methods are evil famous article, about whether getters/setters is an anti-pattern and should be avoided or if it is something we inevitably need in object-oriented programming.
Understanding CSS Specificity / Zillow Engineering BlogFor two years, I have been conducting front-end engineering interviews at Zillow. While every interview is a little different, one thing stands out as common to all of them: hardly anyone understands how CSS specificity works (TL;DR including me).
Rolling ShuttersI remember seeing once the following photo from Flickr, and having my brain melt slightly from trying to figure out what went wrong: The issue was the propeller was rotating as the camera detector ‘read out’, i.e. there was some motion during the exposure of the camera.
Key ExchangeThis clip from the 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures shows a simple demonstration of how two people can agree on a secret key, even though all of the...
Puck en het raadsel van de codesA couple of years ago, a startup called Stamped created an app and service that let you rate anything and everything. Your local doughnut shop? Rate it and tell your friends. Your favourite beach? Rate it and tell your friends. In fact, rate anything you want!
The Great Unicorn HuntWhen talking with people in the Portland, Oregon tech scene I hear the same thing all the time. “We are always looking for developers. We are hiring and can’t find anyone. If you know anyone looking….”.
Building for Failure | LinkedInIncredibly easy way to perform fire-and-forget, delayed and recurring tasks inside ASP.NET applications. No Windows Service required. Backed by Redis, SQL Server, SQL Azure, MSMQ, RabbitMQ.
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.