I'm building a house and I write software for a living. So when someone showed me the article Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses I had to disagree. I'm renovating a 1905 house, and true to the Author's word, it hasn't fallen down.
Why does the Directory.GetFiles method sometimes ignore *.html files when I ask for *.htm?A customer reported that one of their programs stopped working, and they traced the problem to the fact that a search for *.htm on some machines was no longer return files like awesome.html, contrary to the documentation. What's going on?
Is goto Still Considered Harmful?If you're a programmer and you read about the recent controversy over a serious security vulnerability in Apple's Secure Transport (their SSL/TLS implementation), then you may have noticed something odd about the Apple source code where the error occurred. It's full of goto statements.
New and open source from the New York Times R&D LabWe see a moment coming when the collection of endless streams of data is commonplace. As this transition accelerates it is becoming increasingly apparent that our existing toolset for dealing with streams of data is lacking.
100 Days of CodingA few months ago, I decided that I was going write some new code every day and have at least one GitHub commit per day. There are three reasons I decided to do this. First, I wanted to get exposure to some new web application frameworks.
Micro Service ArchitectureBy: , dotnetsites, Microsoft ASP.
Private Offices ReduxAdam Barr writes about Workplace Advantage, a new project going on at Microsoft to rethink how offices are arranged. “This is the plan to have people working in flexible space that can be quickly reconfigured into offices, cubicles, open desks, pods, or whatever you want,” writes Barr.
A Field Guide to DevelopersUnfortunately, you can advertise in all the right places, have a fantastic internship program, and interview all you want, but if the great programmers don’t want to work for you, they ain’t gonna come work for you.
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.