There are many, many questions on Stack Overflow about both parsing and formatting date/time values. (I use the term “date/time” to mean pretty much “any type of chronlogical information” – dates, times of day, instants in time etc.
7 timeless lessons of programming ‘graybeards’In one episode 1.06 of the HBO series "Silicon Valley," Richard, the founder of a startup, gets into a bind and turns for help to a boy who looks 13 or 14. The boy genius takes one look at Richard and says, “I thought you’d be younger. What are you, 25?”
Code Aware Libraries with RoslynCode Aware Libraries are “libraries that provide guidance on correct use through embedded tooling and operates on the user’s code in real time.” .NET Analyzers can be shipped via NuGet or VSIX. The NuGet version can “flow with your code through source control and the build server”.
Why Software Becomes a Big Ball of Mud“Big ball of mud” is one of the more common pejoratives thrown at “legacy” code.
Visual Studio CodeBuild and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. Set breakpoints, step into and out of your code, and inspect variables across the call stack, all from within the Code editing environment.
Artificial Intelligence has crushed all human records in 2048. Here’s how the AI pulled it off.By now, we’ve all heard of the addictive tile-mashing game called 2048. Last week, I picked up 2048 for the first time and — true to my nature — I started designing an AI to beat the game for me the following day.
FIFA 2014 World Cup live stream architectureWe were given the task to stream the FIFA 14 World Cup and I think this was an experience worth sharing. This is a quick overview about: the architecture, the components, the pain, the learning, the open source and etc.
Exit InterviewJava master Bawan was interviewing an applicant for the Elephant's Footprint Clan.
Why I’m Not Sold on MongoDBDisclaimer: While I’ve experimented with MongoDB, I haven’t deployed it to production. These are my honest reservations that keep me from deploying a production app in Mongo. I welcome comments from those who have spent time in the trenches. There are features I really enjoy about MongoDB.
dev.life – Interview with Eric LippertHow did you get into software development? When I was six or seven years old my school library got a couple of Commodore PETs. There was a special school edition of the PET that came with a Waterloo BASIC chip, and we had some stock PETs as well.
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.