It was a strange e-mail, coming from a job recruiter at Google, asking Zachary Harris if he was interested in a position as a site-reliability engineer. Harris was intrigued, but skeptical.
fzaninotto/Faker · GitHubFaker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you. Whether you need to bootstrap your database, create good-looking XML documents, fill-in your persistence to stress test it, or anonymize data taken from a production service, Faker is for you.
Kill the Zombies in Your CodeWith Halloween nearly upon us, it seems appropriate to discuss a widespread problem in software development: zombie code. Nearly every codebase I work with is littered with small chunks or large swaths of commented out code. This is zombie Code. //Turning this feature off for now.
How To Design A Mobile Game With HTML5Care to make a cross-platform mobile game with HTML5? No need to dabble in Java or Objective-C? Bypass the app stores? Sounds like an instant win! A handful of game developers are pushing the envelope of mobile HTML5 games at the moment.
Magic InkThis draft was released March 15, 2006. Please email comments to bretworrydream.com. You can also download the PDF. What is software?
USB Computer Status DisplayThis project is a USB based computer status display. Downloads at the bottom of the page. PIC Firmware: The firmware uses microchips USB stack. The files included in the USB folder are from the "Microchip Libraries of Applications" I used version v2012-08-22 of this library. The main.
Visualizing Facebook Friends With D3.js or “How Wolfram|Alpha Does That Cool Friend Network Graph”A while ago, Wolfram|Alpha got the ability to generate personal analytics based on your Facebook profile.
Hacking BluesTo kick off our San Francisco series of engineer-to-engineer lectures on new technologies and interesting problems in consumer software, we invited in the Great Alex Payne to talk about how Twitter uses Scala, a programming language that combines traits of object-oriented languages and functional l
There Are Only Two Roles of CodeAll code can be classified into two distinct roles; code that does work (algorithms) and code that coordinates work (coordinators).
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.