Coding isn't just for computer whizzes, says Mitch Resnick of MIT Media Lab -- it's for everyone. In a fun, demo-filled talk Resnick outlines the benefits of...
Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFSMartin Woodward dropped in to the studio to share the news that Git repos are now fully supported on Team Foundation Service and that Microsoft has released Visual Studio Tools for Git.
What is the best programming font?How does this 50% code bloat make the program any easier to understand? Personally, I find it harder, because the state space has just increased by another variable that could easily have been prevented. But the conditional operator gets even less love among Java programmers.
DuckDuckGo Architecture - 1 Million Deep Searches a Day and GrowingThis is an interview with Gabriel Weinberg, founder of Duck Duck Go and general all around startup guru, on what DDG’s architecture looks like in 2012. Innovative search engine upstart DuckDuckGo had 30 million searches in February 2012 and averages over 1 million searches a day.
Raster-Scan Displays: More Than Meets The EyeBack in the spring of 1986, Dan Illowsky and I were up against the deadline for an article that we were writing for PC Tech Journal.
Twisted Oak Studios : Unity3D Consulting : Technical MagicThe actor model is an approach to concurrency based on having small single-threaded objects (actors), that can only interact via concurrent messages (as opposed to shared state, locks, condition variables, etc).
claims from research on programmingSome claims with empirical studies behind them from a talk by Greg Wilson:
Top 5 Pragmatic TDD mistakesToday, on Telerik's blog, Bradley Braithwaite published his post "Top 5 TDD Mistakes". I like to comment on "top N mistakes"-kind of posts, so read the Bradley's post first and let me add my three cents about this one, too.
How to design your API SDKI've worked with Twilio's client libraries pretty much every day for the last year and I wanted to share some of the things we've learned about helper libraries. You should think about helper libraries as a more accessible interface to your API.
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.