In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing.
Jank Busting for Better Rendering PerformanceYou want your web app to feel responsive and smooth when doing animations, transitions, and other small UI effects. Making sure these effects are jank-free can mean the difference between a "native" feel or a clunky, unpolished one.
Why Software Engineers are (Vastly) UndervaluedUpdate: After publishing this post, I’ve heard from a ton of Yahoo’s telling me that it is now a much better place to be thanks to Marissa Mayer’s positive changes. Marissa’s first order of business has been to make Yahoo a great place to work.
Exclusive: Inside Google Spanner, the Largest Single Database on EarthEach morning, when Andrew Fikes sat down at his desk inside Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, he turned on the “VC” link to New York. VC is Google shorthand for video conference.
HTML5: What's all the fuss about?A Screencast of the HTML5 Presentation, delivered at Google Campus, London on 31st July 2012 by Tareq Fadel. The presentation showcases a lot of the new tech...
Concrete: A slightly tongue-in-cheek lookBill moves a piece of sewer pipe into his office to show how important the ancient material concrete is to our modern world. It, of course, wreaks havoc on h...
Why Work Does not Happen at Work: Jason Fried at TEDxMidwestWhere do you go when you want to get something done? People don't say "the office". Jason Fried takes a provocative look at why people don't do work in the o...
UptimeYou can watch a demo screencast on Vimeo or try the live demo. Uptime 3.0 requires Node.js 0.8 (if you're stuck with Node 0.6, try Uptime v1.4, available as a tag and on npm) and MongoDB 2.1.
Why I Have Given Up on Coding StandardsEvery developer knows you should have a one, exact, coding standard in your company. Every developer also knows you have to fight to get your rules into the company standard.
Programming is the start not the end: let’s develop computational thinking and problem solving skillsI wholeheartedly support the high-profile initiatives to get more children programming, especially as part of the rethinking of the ICT curriculum in UK schools.
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.