The jQuery Foundation is excited to announce the 1.0 release of the Globalize project, our internationalization (i18n) library.
Everyone has JavaScript, right?Your user requests your web app Has the page loaded yet? “All your users are non-JS while they're downloading your JS” — Jake Archibald Did the HTTP request for the JavaScript succeed? If they're on a train and their net connection goes away before your JavaScript loads, then there's no JavaSc
CRT Simulation in Super Win the GameOver the last few years, I've released a couple of indie games which have featured pixel art processed through a CRT simulation shader.
Technical Phone Screen HOWTOYou have 30 minutes to guess at the capability and fit of an incoming candidate. How do you do that? You have to assess a few key areas quickly. Here are my tips for the person conducting the screening, written from the perspective of the inner monologue I have when I do phone screens.
How to pronounce hexadecimalKid: Here it is: Bit… soup. It’s like alphabet soup, BUT… it’s ones and zeros instead of letters.Bachman: {silence}Kid: ‘Cause it’s binary? You know, binary’s just ones and zeroes.Bachman: Yeah, I know what binary is.
Locking in Microsoft SQL ServerToday I read a question about locking in MySQL on Stack Overflow. When I read the question I had no clue what went wrong (If you know it I would be glad to read your answer ?). I don’t work with MySQL, instead we use MS SQL Server.
Fooled By Your Own BrainYour powers of attention: fooled! Attention is, by definition, limited. And that’s usually a good thing. If you’re searching for a lost earring on the floor, you want to ignore anything that’s not small and shiny.
A Million Lines of Bad CodeThis is the story of some bad code I wrote. Early in my undergraduate days, I was working on a Java program that had to read a 6 MB file (a bacterial genome in FASTA format) into a string. I did this with a for loop that on each iteration concatenated on to a string. It looked something like:
Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables, and which one is right?If you snoop around your environment variables, you may notice that there are two variables that propose to specify the location of temporary files. There is one called TMP and another called TEMP. Why two? And if they disagree, then who's right? Rewind to 1973.
HTTP/1 vs HTTP/2 Page LoadingAn interesting proof-of-contept: http2.golang.org. Especially with simulated latency, HTTP/2 shows its true potential.
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.