Internet URLs, file system paths and IP addresses usually get more specific as you move towards the right hand side. This is a clearly a byproduct of the left-to-right language of the designers of these systems. So why is it that this website is david.newgas.net and not net.newgas.david?
Infinite Scrolling that WorksShortly after we began working together on Discourse, Jeff wrote a post about infinite scrolling. At first, I was surprised at how many people claimed to hate sites that used it.
xml-attackshen I was 12 years old, like most girls my age, I struggled with my identity, wanting to fit in and figuring out what I was good at. I received my first hand-me-down computer in 3rd grade from my godfather and I was hooked.
How an Event Loop worksGetting into coding in Node.js came very naturally to me. Prior to this I had written a fair bit of Danga::Socket in Perl and various solutions on top of it.
Event-Based Programming: What Async Has Over SyncOne of JavaScript’s strengths is how it handles asynchronous (async for short) code. Rather than blocking the thread, async code gets pushed to an event queue that fires after all other code executes. It can, however, be difficult for beginners to follow async code.
One Day Builds: Adam Savage Makes Something Wonderful from ScratchWatch Adam build, from start to finish, a stylized box to carry and display his Blade Runner Blaster prop replica. The entire project took less than one day ...
Why It's Better To Pretend You Don't Know Anything About ComputersAll artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2013 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.
What is NoSQL and is it pornography?But we can't blame MySQL for trying to buy into the NoSQL hype by coopting a poorly defined term. If there is an overhyped area right now, it's clearly Big Data in general, and under that heading, NoSQL is the worst offender (leading by a nose over Hadoop).
Best Best Practices EverEvery once in a while I read something that is so insightful, so clearly written and so well documented that it enters my own personal pantheon of “Best Ever” documents.
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.