On June 30th at precisely 23:59:59, the world’s atomic clocks will pause for a single second. Or, to be more precise, they’ll change to the uncharted time of 23:59:60 — before ticking over to the more worldly hour of 00:00:00 on the morning of July 1st, 2015.
Dirty Coding TricksDirty Coding Tricks By Brandon Sheffield [When the schedule is shot and a game needs to ship, programmers may employ some dirty coding tricks to get the game out the door.
Keeping the Pirates at BayThis is what happened to Insomniac's 1999 Playstation release, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage. Even though it had good copy protection, it was cracked in a little over a week.
When to declare classes finalIn the last month, I had a few discussions about the usage of the final marker on PHP classes. It is therefore clear that coders need a better explanation of when to use final, and when to avoid it.
Lou's Pseudo 3d PageNEW: Important details on the segmented road system and some additional linksNEW: An (optional) explanation of finding field-of-view for the 3d projection formulaNEW: An analysis of S.T.U.N. RunnerNEW: General writing improvements
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What most young programmers need to learnIn the past 7.5 years I have supervised over a dozen programming interns at Ronimo and have seen hundreds of portfolios of students and graduates. In almost all of those I saw the same things that they needed to learn.
Apple has lost the functional high ground – Marco.orgGetting date and time algebra to work just right has always been a challenging task in software development, so I decided to take a look at the implementation of the Joda-Time library. The obvious place to start looking, if you’re at all familiar with the library, is the DateTime class.
Stack Exchange9 web servers RAM: 48GB 4 sql servers Organized as 2 clusters Stack Overflow RAM: 384 GB • DB size: 1.6 TB Stack Exchange, Careers, Meta RAM: 288 GB • DB size: 1.2 TB 2 redis servers RAM: 96GB Master Slave It’s a unique custom, high performance index of Stack Exchange questions.
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.