I wrote a Chrome extension to add a calendar (date picker) to any web page. Initially I just wanted to add a calendar to Google forms but then thought it might be useful on other pages as well. So I made it into an extension and published it in the Chrome web store.
The Unofficial Guide to Rich Hickey's BrainPart of my excitement in learning Clojure has been being exposed to Rich Hickey's thoughts on programming. Rich Hickey has a clear, consistent way of viewing fundamental programming concepts that I think any programmer would benefit from.
Top down, bottom upToward the end of his presentation Don’t fear the Monad, Brian Beckman makes an interesting observation.
Default styles and templates of XAML controls for Windows Store AppsIn the early days of WPF and Silverlight, the only way you could get information about the default templates and styles of controls would be by opening Blend and editing a copy of the default style. Fortunately, this information is now documented on MSDN, however it is not always easy to find.
DevRadio: You’re Coding from the Wrong End! Adventures in Advanced Data ModelingThis is a combined post of part 1, 2, and three especially united for my readers. in this episode I have a lot of fun with Buck Woody who has forgotten more about Data Modeling that most of us. Listen in and take a course with the professor. Abstract:Jerry Nixon welcomes Sr.
'Mum, Dad, I want to be a Game Designer'This is a presentation made at the SAND, (Swansea International Animation Festival), in November 2008, by the Global Head of Employment Brand, Matthew Jeffer...
Rare Are GC TalksThis article is meant to be an easy to understand explanation of GC algorithms to those who think to themselves "I get that garbage collection is useful, but I don’t really understand how it all works". An explanation of how the CRuby*1 GC works will follow.
Microsoft Silverlight: shattered into a million broken urlsThere has been some Twitter chatter about the closure of silverlight.net, Microsoft’s official site for its lightweight .NET client platform. multimedia player and browser plug-in. I am not sure when it happened, but it is true. Silverlight.net now redirects to a page on MSDN.
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Developer TimeDevelopers should have 4-6 hours of uninterrupted activity each day. Each 3-5 minute interruption costs more than you can imagine. What I said in that tweet was not new - dozens if not hundreds of others have tweeted similar thoughts before and gotten many retweets.
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.