Rob Janssen

Release Notes Mono 3.8.0

Mono 3.8.0 has 711 commits since the last release. This is the work of 61 contributors since May 28. 58 bugs were fixed.

Mono Gets Further Performance, Scalability Improvements

Mono 3.8.0 was released last week. It comes with several performance and scalability improvements across the runtime, as well as finishes the Windows port. Mono follows Gnome and Linux Kernel versioning policies, which means 3.8 is the next major stable version after 3.

Poor UI Design Can Kill – Air Inter Flight 148, a harsh lesson learned

On January 20, 1992, Air Inter Flight 148 crashed into the Vosges Mountains while approaching Strasbourg Airport in Strasbourg, France. 87 of the 96 crew and passengers on board were killed. So why am I writing about a horrible accident on my programming blog? Because of the cause of the crash.

How Apple Pay works and why it matters for developers

Apple Pay marks the first time a popular operating system is making payments a platform service for real-world, non-digital-good transactions, in a broad, inclusive manner that is compatible with the mainstream payments processing industry.

The Pursuit of 60fps Everywhere with Nat Duca

Nat Duca is an engineer on the Chrome team working to make an always-60fps, jank free mobile web a reality.If you want to move something at 60fps today, you must apply a littany of tricks, especially translateZ and friends. If you make a mistake, off the fast path ye shall go. On the Chrome team we

Enabling Testing in Production in Azure Websites

Join your guide Cory Fowler as he talks to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. This week Cory is joined by Galin Iliev from the Azure Websites team to check out the newly announced preview feature testing in production.

alyssa frazee

For several popular programming languages, this chart shows the gender breakdown of the owners of public GitHub repositories. Each owner's gender was algorithmically predicted from the first name they choose to display on their GitHub profile. (Click it to see a larger static version).

The Forgotten User

We've all heard stories of projects gone wrong because somehow everyone forgot about the users, haven't we? I want to draw your attention to another user who is almost always forgotten in every other bit of coding we all do everyday. That user is the future programmer. That programmer may be you.

Stephen's Java Adventures : Version numbers

Simplifying Classes with C# 6.0

Property initializers and primary constructors are C# 6.0 features that simplify classes and make code more readable. Take 5 minutes to learn about both of them in this latest NOWcast from Microsoft MVP Kathleen Dollard!

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