Can we start by asking a serious question? How easy is it to find advice for novice Java programmers on the web? Whenever I look, I see tons of tutorials, books and resources for a programmer who is just starting out.
The six months ruleLast week I had to make some changes into a really old project. The problem was: when I started, I didn’t remember how old the project really was. This was actually my first MVC project using Codeigniter. When I opened the project there was a couple of things that I started missing.
Why Many Developers Hate ASP.NET… and Why They’re WrongFew platforms draw the same amount of ire as ASP.NET (or .NET in general) from the development community. While there are certainly valid criticisms of the platform (what platform doesn’t?), the majority of negativity comes from those who haven’t spent any time with .NET.
Understanding CPU Steal – An ExperimentRecently at Stackdriver, we wanted to understand the metric of “CPU steal”. We knew that it was a relatively recent addition to the Unix method of tracking CPU usage, and we knew that it was introduced with the growing use of virtualization.
I Failed a Twitter InterviewThe deadline for confirming my return internship with Amazon was October 28th, but my friend Daniel convinced me that if I applied to Twitter I'd be able to finish all my interviews before then. So I went for it. First they asked me to solve two Codility questions within a one hour time frame.
The ‘Already Dead’ Theory..This talk of re-licensing has sparked several people to look into the history of MAME and see what skeletons they can uncover. Some of them are just a little concerning. This is based on 2nd hand research, so there could be gaps here.
What Are You The World's Foremost Authority Of?I was given a series of animals, with some art for each, and my job was to make them move around in ways that looked believable. Well, as believable as you could get on a 16-bit game system. It was more about giving the impression of how fish would swim in a river than being truly realistic.
Out-of-the-Box Computing – MemoryThe Mill is a new CPU architecture designed for very high single-thread performance within a very small power envelope. It achieves DSP-like power/performance on general purpose codes, without reprogramming. The Mill is a wide-issue, statically scheduled design with exposed pipeline.
PhysicsJS (Yes, a JavaScript Physics engine)In today's Web Wednesday post we're highlighting something you might think a little oxymoronic, a JavaScript Physics engine. It's still in an Alpha status, but even so, it's looking pretty cool...
Cryptography in the BrowserOne of the challenges we encountered in creating Opal was finding a fast and secure way to do encryption and decryption in the browser. This post describes why browser-side cryptography has been a difficult problem, and how recent technological advances provide a solution.
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.