Earlier this year, a few stories moved through the Ruby On Rails and wider development community as one of their shining stars, GitHub was hacked to draw attention to some of the weaknesses that can come about from ROR’s convention-based model binding.
Martin’s BlogKWin is one of the oldest KDE applications still in active development without having been rewritten from scratch. Development of KWin started in 1999 for KDE 2, but some parts of KWin even date back to KWM from KDE 1 times.
Why Do Some Programming Languages Live and Others Die?Google wants to change the way the world writes software. In recent years, the search giant has unveiled two new programming languages that seek to improve on some of the most widely used languages on the planet.
Zed A. Shaw - The Web Will Die When OOP DiesThis video was filmed during The Web Rebels conference which took place on the 24-25th of May 2012 in Oslo, Norway. It is a non-profit conference for everyone who loves programming applications and services using web technology. Track us: http://webrebels.org | https://twitter.com/#!/web_reb
Visual Basic 6, Ruby and Getting Off My LawnDavid Platt has a great article called The Silent Majority: Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives. Even though I studied C++ in school, my first corporate job was in Visual Basic 2, then quickly VB3. By the time VB6 came out it's fair to say I could make that thing sing.
Using Asynchronous Methods in ASP.NET 4.5This tutorial will teach you the basics of building an asynchronous ASP.NET Web Forms application using Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web, which is a free version of Microsoft Visual Studio. You can also use Visual Studio 2012. The following sections are included in this tutorial. ASP.NET 4.
Fast Intersection of Sorted Lists Using SSE InstructionsIntersection of sorted lists is a cornerstone operation in many applications including search engines and databases because indexes are often implemented using different types of sorted structures.
Unreal Engine 4 - GT.TV Exclusive Development WalkthroughGet your first look at a real time in-engine tech demo of Unreal 4 in this GT.TV walkthrough with Epic's Sr. Technical Artist Alan Willard! Catch all of the ...
www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse590n/10au/hanenberg-oopsla2010.pToday, I thought it would be fun to give some insight into how we do native application design at GitHub. Many people are surprised to hear the breadth of design and code that happens at GitHub on a daily basis. We love Ruby and Rails, but we are far from a single language dev shop.
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.