This post came to my mind after watching the excellent presentation of Scott Meyers called "CPU Caches and Why You care". This post will try to summarize the ideas of the presentation so if you have some spare time you can just watch the presentation on video.
OpenRoss - fast, scalable, on-demand image resizerThe OpenRoss image proxy service provides a way of serving dynamically resized images from Amazon S3 in a way that is fast, efficient, and auto-scales with traffic. We have hosted the source for this service at Github.
Top 10 Java Developers for Hire in Sep. 2014Today, nearly 20 years after its initial launch, Java is reported to be the most in-demand language skill, and by a wide margin (twice as popular as the runner up, PHP). With Java usage being so pervasive, there is no shortage of developers with Java listed on their resumes.
The Simpsons in CSSBelow are some Simpsons characters made in pure CSS - Made by Chris Pattle.
Chris PattleSimpsons in CSS I put a side project on Github the other day, Simpsons in CSS. CSS is becoming more and more powerful and often with a bit of though you can replace basic graphics with CSS. The advantages of this are obviously better performance and graphics that scale.
DEC64: Decimal Floating PointDEC64 is a number type. It can precisely represent decimal fractions with 16 decimal places, which makes it well suited to all applications that are concerned with money. It can represent values as large as 3.6028797018963968E+143 or as small as 1.
On Taxis and RainbowsRecently, thanks to a Freedom of Information request, Chris Whong received and made public a complete dump of historical trip and fare logs from NYC taxis. It’s pretty incredible: there are over 20GB of uncompressed data comprising more than 173 million individual trips.
TALES OF APPLICATION COMPATIBILITYPhysicist Stephen Hawking's recent appearance on Last Week Tonight was genuinely laugh-out-loud hilarious. Oliver had him kickstart a new segment called "People Who Think Good," where he was asked about the dangers of AI, time travel — and Oliver's metaphysical odds of dating Charlize Theron.
Error logging and tracking done right with Raygun.ioFor some years now, one of the first things I’ve dropped into any new project has been ELMAH.
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.