My thanks go to Guido for allowing me to share my own history of Python! I'll save my introduction to Python for another post, but the end result was its introduction into a startup that I co-founded in 1991 with several people.
joepie91's RamblingsThis may not sound that bad - after all, they're just a service provider, right? - but let's put this in context for a moment. Currently, CloudFlare essentially controls 11% of the 10k biggest websites, over 8% of the 100k biggest websites (source), and almost 5% of sites on the entire web (source).
Surviving The Dreaded Company FrameworkThis week, I’m making it two in a row with a reader question. Today’s question is about an internal company framework and how to survive it.
Random Number Generation[[This is Chapter XV from “beta” Volume 2 of the upcoming book “Development&Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games”, which is currently being beta-tested.
Random Number Generation[[This is Chapter XV from “beta” Volume 2 of the upcoming book “Development&Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games”, which is currently being beta-tested.
jQuery 3.0 Final Released!jQuery 3.0 is now released! This version has been in the works since October 2014. We set out to create a slimmer, faster version of jQuery (with backwards compatibility in mind).
I finally finished this awesome game called Photoshop, let me send you a videoIt used to be that if you needed to create a recording of a program on the PC, you had to get Expressions Encoder or some other capture program. But the feature is now built into Windows 10, assuming you're willing to do some pretending. Windows 10 brings the Xbox Game DVR feature to the PC.
SQL Server 2016 and the Internet: Forced Updates, Phoning HomeSQL Server 2016’s End User License Agreement (EULA) contains a couple of surprises for those who let their SQL Servers connect to the internet. No, I don’t mean where the Internet connects to you – I mean where the SQL Server can reach the internet, like open a web page.
BattleshipI?m going to continue my analysis of classic card and board games by looking at the game of Battleship. (See early postings for analysis of Chutes & Ladders, Candyland and Risk). Battleship is a classic two person game, originally played with pen and paper.
3 pleasantly surprising PostgreSQL Indexing tricksMost Rails engineers know the basics of database performance. They know that if a query is slow, an index may be the solution. Some know the trade-offs between having and not having an index. Or why an index on a low-cardinality column might not help.
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.