At the Front-Trends 2013 conference last week, Gregor Martynus gave a talk entitled "Look ma, no backend!" about developing applications primarily from a front-end perspective, falling back to using server-side components only to implement the features the browser does not yet support.
Object Oriented Programming is DeadOK perhaps not dead but Robert Harper, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, says(Teaching FP to freshmen) that object oriented programming and design is “unsuitable for a modern CS curriculum.
From the ground up (or how to encourage a school boy) : John Graham-CummingFollowing on from my popular blog post about coding by hand in 1985 I dug into my pile of old stuff to look at how myself and another boy at school reverse engineered the Research Machines CHAIN network and built everything from networking protocols to a network management system in assembly languag
Computer Science Blows My MindComputer science is an interesting discipline. Often, I find myself inadequately trying to communicate why I find it so fascinating. I think I get the closest when describing computer science things that ‘blow my mind’.
SOLID is Append-only by Mark SeemannSOLID is a set of principles that, if applied consistently, has some surprising effect on code. In a previous post I provided a sketch of what it means to meticulously apply the Single Responsibility Principle.
Beautiful APIs and dogfoodIf you were building a large system now, it might seem contrary to build a service which relies on a data source without an abstraction in the form of an API.
Sublime Studio: Replicating Sublime Text 2 Features in Visual StudioI've been gearing up to get into some heavier ASP.NET development for the next couple of months. I saved up in my piggy bank for a few months and grabbed a Lenovo Yoga. Then I installed Visual Studio, fired up a new project and immediately felt sad.
Zen Coding in Visual Studio 2012Quick Reference Here is a quick list of the Zen Coding features that are now supported in Visual Studio 2012 via the Web Essentials 2012 plug in # creates an id attribute .
DIP in the WildAt the time the team was working on this, we had shared pairing stations, and an open environment. I heard the pair working on the problem and asked if they were depending directly on JMX or if they were following the DIP (paraphrased, but true story).
Profiling in ProductionAt Booking.com, we're big fans of monitoring. With the usual battery of system-level monitors, we keep an eye on the health of our servers. As you would expect from any commercial internet company, we also keep track of various business metrics.
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.