Last month, while wasting a few moments on Facebook, my pal Brendan O’Malley was surprised to see that his old friend Alex Gomez had “liked” Discover. This was surprising not only because Alex hated mega-corporations but even more so because Alex had passed away six months earlier.
Code AbuseOne programmer's extension is another programmer's abuse. Dear KV, During some recent downtime at work, I've been cleaning up a set of libraries, removing dead code, updating documentation blocks, and fixing minor bugs that have been annoying but not critical.
_utf8 POST parameter on gmail login contains a snowman character [closed]Possible Duplicate:What is the _snowman param in Rails 3 forms for? Why do they do this? Is it possible that they somehow test for browser compatibility to UTF8?
Lost GardenGame Post Mortem: Hard VacuumMining a 12-year old game design for innovative game mechanics. In 1993, I worked on an unreleased RTS game design called Hard Vacuum.
Notes from the ArchitectOnce you start working with the Varnish source code, you will notice that Varnish is not your average run of the mill application. That is not a coincidence.
Microsoft Silverlight: shattered into a million broken urlsThere has been some Twitter chatter about the closure of silverlight.net, Microsoft’s official site for its lightweight .NET client platform. multimedia player and browser plug-in. I am not sure when it happened, but it is true. Silverlight.net now redirects to a page on MSDN.
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Developer TimeDevelopers should have 4-6 hours of uninterrupted activity each day. Each 3-5 minute interruption costs more than you can imagine. What I said in that tweet was not new - dozens if not hundreds of others have tweeted similar thoughts before and gotten many retweets.
Intern Series: Diary of an Ad Server InternThese days, the guys and gals on the data pipeline team find themselves in an interesting position: wrangling 20TB of billing data and records into databases and data warehouses every single day.
Here's what ICT should really teach kids: how to do regular expressions"Technical literacy" is the subject of an ongoing, worldwide educational debate. Some argue that every kid should learn the basics of programming and successfully write a program or two before graduating – just as we expect every student to write an essay or two before leaving school.
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.