These days almost any application has several integration points like database, payment gateway, or some Web service that it consumes over HTTP. All communication with the remote systems happens over the network and both networks and those systems often go wonky.
Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in the WorldOur goal is to reveal temporal variations in videos that are difficult or impossible to see with the naked eye and display them in an indicative manner.
Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod | Video on TED.comTED Talks Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists.
The Pace of Technology is Slower than You ThinkThe first book on Objective-C, the language of modern iOS development, was published in 1986. Perl came on the scene in 1987, Python in 1991, Ruby in 1995.
c - Locale specific behavior in the regex library? - Stack OverflowThe Future: Safer, Self-Repairing Software. My group and others (notably Martin Rinard at MIT, Vikram Adve at Illinois, Yuanyuan Zhou at UC-San Diego, Shan Lu at Wisconsin, and Luis Ceze and Dan Grossman at Washington) have made great strides in building safety systems for other classes of errors.
Signs that you're a good programmerThe most frequently viewed page on this site is Signs you're a bad programmer, which has also now been published on dead trees by Hacker Monthly, and I think that behoves me to write its antithesis. "Bad programmer" is also considered inflammatory by some who think I'm speaking down to them.
Well-Kept Gardens Die By PacifismGood online communities die primarily by refusing to defend themselves. Somewhere in the vastness of the Internet, it is happening even now.
Rebel without a clause: 6 ways to misuse exception handlingDo you consider yourself a Java expert? Can you quickly spot five exception handling problems below?
SQL Shells, RebootedLike many other Linux/open-source software tech companies, Shutterstock makes extensive use of tried-and-true technologies like MySQL.
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.