A 2-day not-for-profit by-the-community and for-the-community international conference about the New Worlds of JavaScript. Lisbon, Portugal, October 2-3, 2013
How I Judge the Quality of Documentation in 30 Seconds — Surfing in KansasAs a developer, you develop instincts for judging quality of code. One of my favorite interview questions is: I think this question is telling. Every person has different priorities, and this is a great way to get at them.
At last, C# is getting “?.”, sometimes called the Safe Navigation OperatorVisual Studio (and many other Microsoft Products) uses http://UserVoice.com as a feedback mechanism for users to suggest and vote on product features. One of the most popular features, with 3,752 votes, a new “?.” operator for the C# language, sometimes called the Safe Navigation Operator.
Why your software project will slowly die without continuous updatingTo keep your house in a good condition you have to clean it every week. From time to time some things will break and you have to fix or to replace them. But most of the time a quick paint job for the doors and the windows might be enough.
Use Your InterfaceIs a growing library of transitional interface and interaction design patterns to help you inspire and communicate your UI ideas with people. This site is managed and populated with new interactions daily by Josh Davey.
Modern Microprocessors A 90 Minute Guide!Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right' and 'build car'. WARNING: This article is meant to be informal and fun!
How To Safely Generate A Random NumberUse urandom. Use urandom. Use urandom. Use urandom. Use urandom. Use urandom. Still urandom.
How can I get better at handling edge cases in computer programming?Overall, you have to get into the mindset of thinking like an adversary who is trying to cause your code to fail. Whenever you decide to get the first element in a list, you need to automatically think “could the list be empty?”.
Why were there gotos in apple software in the first place ?With all the talk about goto being bad (if you haven't, read Edsger Dijkstra's famous go to considered harmful), it's a wonder it could still be found in production code.
MongoDB BlogThis is a guest post by Mike Chesnut, Director of Operations Engineering at Crittercism. This June, Mike will present at MongoDB World on how Crittercism scaled to 30,000 requests/second (and beyond) on MongoDB.
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.