One of the most consolidated misconceptions about programming, since the early days, is the idea that such activity is purely technical, completely exact in nature, like Math and Physics. Computation is exact, but programming is not.
The Lava Layer Anti-PatternTL:DR Successive, well intentioned, changes to architecture and technology throughout the lifetime of an application can lead to a fragmented and hard to maintain code base. Sometimes it is better to favour consistent legacy technology over fragmentation.
Your company WILL bea software companyIndustries that don’t adopt software die. They’re overtaken by more efficient organizations or completely displaced by disruptive new technologies. Media distribution (news, music, movies) was revolutionized by the internet.
The 80/20 rule... for storage systems.The 80/20 rule is often attributed to an Italian economist named Vilfredo Pareto. Born in 1848, Pareto was (inspirationally at least) one of the early members of the occupy movement: he observed that 80% of Italy’s wealth at that time was owned by fewer than 20% of Italy’s population.
Client-side coding: How to prevent malicious use?This Q&A is part of a weekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 100+ Q&A sites.
Doom3 is the proof that “keep it simple” works.If you search on the web for the best C++ source code. The Doom3 source code is mentioned many times, with testimonials like this one. I spent a bit of time going through the Doom3 source code. It’s probably the cleanest and nicest looking code I’ve ever seen.
Random User GeneratorA free API for generating random user data. Like Lorem Ipsum, but for people. You can use AJAX or another method to ask RandomUser for a randomly generated user. If you are using JQuery, you can paste this code in your body to get started.
Pull Request Merge Strategies: The Great DebateWhen a piece of work is complete, tested and ready to be merged back into your main line of development, your team has some policy choices to make. What are your merge strategy options? In this article I'll explain the possibilities and then provide some notes on how we do it at Atlassian.
C# 6.0Did you think C# was already the perfect programming language? Did you think there was no work left on refining the language? In this session I’ll walk through what’s new in C# 6.0, how the new open-source compiler helped and why we have an awesome time ahead!
https://pages.apigee.com/rs/apigee/images/api-design-ebook-2012-03.pdfThis 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.