Rob Janssen (RobIII)

CDNs fail, but your scripts don't have to - fallback from CDN to local jQuery

There's a great website called http://whoownsmyavailability.com that serves as a reminder to me (and all of us) that external dependencies are, in fact, external. As such, they are calculated risks with tradeoffs.

AMD’s “heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access” coming this year in Kaveri

AMD wants to talk about HSA, Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA), its vision for the future of system architectures. To that end, it held a press conference last week to discuss what it's calling "heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access" (hUMA).

Why Windows 8 drivers are buggy

We have checked the Windows 8 Driver Samples pack with our analyzer PVS-Studio and found various bugs in its samples. There is nothing horrible about it - bugs can be found everywhere, so the title of this article may sound a bit high-flown.

Ludum Dare 26

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you want to place in the final results, you NEED votes. The easiest way to get votes is by rating other games. Judging lasts for 3 weeks following the end of Ludum Dare. For best effect, rate 20 games as soon as possible. Rating more games is encouraged. You must sign in to vote.

REST lessons learned by Mark Seemann

This post provides an overview of some lessons I learned while bulding non-trivial REST APIs. Last year I spent a good deal of the year designing and implementing a handful of non-trivial REST APIs for a customer of mine.

Hacking PHP syntax

Have you ever though how to extend the core of PHP? What does it take to create a new keyword or even design a whole new syntax? If you have some basic knowledge about C you shouldn’t have any problem with making small changes.

Programming language trends — Drew Conway

Every since I started investigating the popularity of programming languages by looking at their usage on Github and StackOverflow I have wanted to improve on the original scatter-plot. I have been toying with this for a few weeks, and am finally ready to add this project to The Lab.

HTML5 canvas and javascript fireworks tutorial

Learn to make a fireworks display with HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript. In this demo, the pixel sized rockets launch from the bottom of the screen automatically, and by the click of your mouse. You can also click and drag to launch multiple fireworks.

Java Generics vs C# Generics vs C++ Templates

The generics are yet another mechanism to reduce code duplication. They allow us to specify a class only once, and use it later with different parameters, maintaining one codebase. A main example would be the data structures in C# and Java.

Code Ownership – Who Should Own the Code?

A key decision in building and managing any development team is agreeing on how ownership of the code will be divided up: who is going to work on what code; how much work can be, and should be, shared across the team; and who will be responsible for code quality.