Over the past few years my clientele shifted from a mix of mostly mid-market companies and a few startups to almost entirely startups, and that shift has resulted in a wider palette of languages requested by clients.
30 Weeks of Game DevelopmentOutland Games is an iOS game I’ve been working on at Uber Entertainment since late last summer. We just released the game to the app store this week (iTunes – $0.99). This post is the first in a short series on it’s development.
Solving Problems Using Data StructuresTagged as: csharp, java. TL;DR: In this article I show how a data structure can be used to encapsulate implementation details and lead to nice clean code.
Breaking down Amazon’s mega dropdownThe hover effects on Amazon’s big ‘ole “Shop by Department” mega dropdown are super fast. Look’it how quick each submenu fills in as your mouse moves down the list: It’s instant. I got nerd sniped by this. Most dropdown menus have to include a bit of a delay when activating submenus.
Wishes for the CLR JIT in the 2020sThere have been some very interesting discussions at the MVP Summit concerning the CLR JIT, what we expect of it, and how to evolve it forward. I obviously can't disclose any NDA materials, but what I can do is share my hopes and dreams for the JIT, going forward.
Programming's not for you? How about thinking? Be empowered.There seems to be two extremes of this whole "Learn to Code" movement which has come to a crescendo with the "What most schools don't teach" video from Code.org.
Do Not Pass This Way AgainConsidering MySQL? Use something else. Already on MySQL? Migrate. For every successful project built on MySQL, you could uncover a history of time wasted mitigating MySQL's inadequacies, masked by a hard-won, but meaningless, sense of accomplishment over the effort spent making MySQL behave.
The Deep Insights of Alan KayThe best way to predict the future is to invent it. But for the unfamiliar, Alan has one of the most illustrious careers in computer science who’s been awarded both a Kyoto Prize and a Turing award for his work on Object Oriented Programming.
inaka / Don't Under-Think It : SQL vs NoSQLTechnical debt is the cost, in developer time or money, of a line of code due to poor engineering, sloppy programming, or cutting corners. It's everywhere in the technology world. I'm often asked to come in and solve problems due to massive technical debt.
Developers Guide to ImagesI’ve regularly received questions from developer friends who are a bit baffled with images and the somewhat confusing formats. I’ve also heard from various developers that they hate receiving a PSD with no instructions and having to wade through the overwhelming options of Photoshop.
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.