The MDL components are created with CSS, JavaScript, and HTML. You can use the components to construct web pages and web apps that are attractive, consistent, and functional.
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.
Encryption's holy grail is getting closer, one way or anotherWhether it's a reaction to the Snowden revelations, a reaction to the continual news of massive data breaches, or just the obvious need to secure data in the cloud -- or all of the above -- new technologies for working directly on encrypted data are getting plenty of attention.
Custom build configurations on VisualStudioSometimes you might need your application to behave differently according to different clients, or different operating systems, or any other criterion. You could create global variables, initialize them on your application’s startup, and scatter if statements over your code.
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.
Charles Oliver Nutter - Fast as C: How to write really terrible JavaFor years we’ve been told that the JVM’s amazing optimizers can take your running code and make it “fast” or “as fast as C++” or “as fast as C”…or sometimes “faster than C”. And yet we don’t often see this happen in practice, due in large part to (good and bad) development pa
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.
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.