Recently I’ve read a tweet from Yehuda Katz in which he suggested an interesting idea, as an alternative for using nil as a result from a method: to use a symbol instead.
Symbols: The New Return Codes? (Pt. 2)In this previous post we’ve considered the benefits and inconveniences of using nil and symbols as return values in a method. Now we’ll evaluate the possibility of throwing an exception, and yet another alternative: using a closure.
move fast & break nothingI've given a lot of talks and written a lot of blog posts about software development and teams and organizations. Probably one way to sum them all up is: more communication.
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What The Hell Was Megadeth, Arizona? — Cuepoint — MediumThis is the story of how an unlikely threesome—a girl, a heavy metal band and their fans?—?pioneered the web at its infancy, bucked the status quo and proved that the Internet wasn’t a fad. It’s 1994. I’m working at Capitol Records in Hollywood, California.
Down to the silicon: how the Z80's registers are implementedThe 8-bit Z80 microprocessor is famed for use in many early personal computers such the Osborne 1, TRS-80, and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The Z80 has an innovative design for its internal registers, with two sets of general-purpose registers.
Puzzle Driven DevelopmentPDD, or Puzzle Driven Development, is a method used to break down programming tasks into smaller ones and enable their implementation in parallel. The PDD method is used widely in XDSD methodology. The method is pending a USPTO patent (application no. 12/840,306).
Performance Counters for your HttpClientPure HTTP APIs (aka REST APIs) are very popular at the moment. If you are building/maintaining one, you have probably learnt (perhaps the hard way) that having a monitoring on your API is one of your top cross-cutting concerns.
Tips for building a Single Page ApplicationEveryone’s building single page applications (SPA) these days. We’ll take a look at some of the challenges and best practices for building JavaScript heavy applications. Some of the things might not be so obvious at first glance, but it definitely helps to think about this up front.
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.