Het is deze maand dertig jaar geleden dat de eerste Amiga uitkwam: de Commodore Amiga 1000. De introductie was spectaculair en werd opgeluisterd door kunstenaar Andy Warhol en zangeres Debby Harry.
Determinism with fixed point mathMy girlfriend and I felt like shaking up our daily life a little. So we decided to move to Budapest for a month. We arrived two weeks ago and so far it has been great. The only thing is that I am not that good with high temperatures. Here is my new best friend:
7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 2)This is the second part in a two-part series. You should read the first part first. We’re talking about rules for designing clean and simple UI without needing to attend art school in order to do so.
7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1)OK, first things first. This guide is not for everyone. Who is this guide for? If you went to art school or consider yourself a UI designer already, you will likely find this guide some combination of a.) boring, b.) wrong, and c.) irritating. That’s fine. All your criticisms are right.
The decline of Stack Overflow — MediumStack Overflow was created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, as a more open alternative to earlier Q&A sites such as Experts-Exchange. The name for the website was chosen by voting in April 2008 by readers of Coding Horror, Atwood’s popular programming blog.
LongRunning is useless for Task.Run with async-awaitBack in the olden days of .Net 4.0 we didn’t have Task.Run. All we had to start a task was the complicated Task.Factory.StartNew. Among its parameters there’s a TaskCreationOptions often used to specify TaskCreationOptions.LongRunning.
The Immutable Stack – Part 1/3 – Johann RomefortImmutability is becoming a real trend in computing, from the programming language, infrastructure, to applicative and data layers. In this three articles installment we’ll see how immutability is changing the way we build system and enable a new breed of applications to be designed.
Five Invaluable Techniques to Improve Regex PerformanceRegular expressions are powerful, but with great power comes great responsibility. Because of the way most regex engines work, it is surprisingly easy to construct a regular expression that can take a very long time to run.
Clients are Jerks: aka How Halo 4 DoSed the Services at Launch & How We SurvivedAt 3am PST November 5th 2012 I sat fidgeting at my desk at 343 Industries watching graphs of metrics stream across my machine, Halo 4 was officially live in New Zealand, and the number of concurrent users began to gradually increase as midnight gamers came online and began to play.
Recognising a Bad User Interface at First GlanceWhen I wrote my previous blog post, it dawned on me that a trained eye can often spot unfriendly software a mile away. It’s just like forming and making a first impression when you meet someone new. Apparently, this takes about one-tenth of a second.
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.