This year, a new way to handle graphics chips will speed up everything on your computer -- from Photoshop to a first-person shooter.
A Few Valid Reasons to Reject a Bug FixA bug exists when something doesn't work as expected. A bug fix is basically a patch (a pull request) to the existing code base that is supposed to solve the problem and make sure that "something" works as expected. Very often, such a patch fixes one thing and breaks many others.
SQL Server 2016: Stretch DatabaseSQL Server 2016’s new stretch database feature promises to offer local server performance for hot data and cloud storage for old data without any change to the application.
4 Ways to Pick Your First Programming LanguageIf you haven’t picked your first programming language, the programming world is your oyster. Yet with evangelists for every language telling you their language is the best, choosing one to start with can be incredibly overwhelming.
What is codeA computer is a clock with benefits. They all work the same, doing second-grade math, one step at a time: Tick, take a number and put it in box one. Tick, take another number, put it in box two.
What the heck is a lambda?Lambdas? That’s a frat right? Why are they in C#? No no… it’s not a frat! Lambdas are simply a syntax that we use to define anonymous methods. What’s an anonymous method? It’s a method that has no declaration. What’s a method declaration? Jeez man…
A Tale of Two File NamesYou probably know about “ordinary views” already, but I’m sure you’ll find one or two things in this article that you haven’t thought about in this way yet… What exactly are SQL views? Views in SQL are a means of treating complex queries in the same way as “ordinary” tables.
It’s The Future[Editor Note: At the risk of spoiling the joke a bit, we want to make sure that everyone knows that the following is satire, and we’re actually quite fond of the companies we mention.
The Making of LemmingsIf a young electronics engineer named David Jones hadn’t lost his job at the Timex plant in Dundee in 1988, videogame history would have been different.
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.