Now you'd thing what the hell am I rambling about now, but here's the thing. Reading through my daily dose of programming news in Google Reader I stumbled upon this clever algorithm - the Damerau-Levenshtein distance algorithm.
The picture of dishonesty: social media slaps down a wedding photo fakerSome days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. I don't know what time Meagan Kunert, a Conway, Arkansas, wedding photographer, went to sleep Tuesday night. I can only surmise from her last online posts that day that it was a night like any other.
The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymoreWhat happens when all the things we based our icons on don't exist anymore? Do they just become, ahem, iconic glyphs whose origins are shrouded in mystery? Save? Save where? You know, down there. Adding the Arrow to the 3.5" floppy makes me smile.
On Visual Studio 11's redesign awkwardnessMost people by now are aware of the design changes from Visual Studio 2010 to VS11 Beta, and from Beta to RC. There were quite a few complaints about the Beta design, not the least of which included the lack of colors and the ALL CAPS tool window title bars and tabs.
OrmHateListening to some critics, you'd think that the best thing for a modern software developer to do is roll their own ORM. The implication is that tools like Hibernate and Active Record have just become bloatware, so you should come up with your own lightweight alternative.
AnyCPU Exes are usually more trouble than they're worthOver the past few months I've had some interesting debates with folks here (and some customers) about the cost/benefit trade-off of "AnyCPU" (architecture-neutral) managed EXEs.
A set of top Computer Science blogsThis started out as a list of top Computer Science blogs, but it more closely resembles a set: the order is irrelevant and there are no duplicate elements; membership of this set of blogs satisfies all of the following conditions: they are written by computer scientists and focus on computer scienc
Top Ranked - Crash KingBad stuff happens! There is no way around that. It’s a fact; your apps, out there in the wild on consumers devices, will crash. This in itself is ok but only if you can get the information about those crashes and use that information to fix the bugs that cause them.
Setting up a CI server using Jenkins, MSBuild and GitHub on a Windows ServerWhen I was working for Medtelligent Inc.
Microsoft creates Kinect-like system using your laptop’s built-in speaker & microphoneNot one to be outdone by Disney’s any-surface touch interface, Microsoft Research, working with the University of Washington, has developed a Kinect-like system that uses your computer’s built-in microphone and speakers to provide object detection and gesture recognition, much in the same way
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.