In the last month, I had a few discussions about the usage of the final marker on PHP classes. It is therefore clear that coders need a better explanation of when to use final, and when to avoid it.
Lou's Pseudo 3d PageNEW: Important details on the segmented road system and some additional linksNEW: An (optional) explanation of finding field-of-view for the 3d projection formulaNEW: An analysis of S.T.U.N. RunnerNEW: General writing improvements
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What most young programmers need to learnIn the past 7.5 years I have supervised over a dozen programming interns at Ronimo and have seen hundreds of portfolios of students and graduates. In almost all of those I saw the same things that they needed to learn.
Apple has lost the functional high ground – Marco.orgGetting date and time algebra to work just right has always been a challenging task in software development, so I decided to take a look at the implementation of the Joda-Time library. The obvious place to start looking, if you’re at all familiar with the library, is the DateTime class.
Stack Exchange9 web servers RAM: 48GB 4 sql servers Organized as 2 clusters Stack Overflow RAM: 384 GB • DB size: 1.6 TB Stack Exchange, Careers, Meta RAM: 288 GB • DB size: 1.2 TB 2 redis servers RAM: 96GB Master Slave It’s a unique custom, high performance index of Stack Exchange questions.
Why Deleting Sensitive Information From Github Doesn't Save YouSo you accidentally committed a password or API key to Github. Ouch. Just today, I saw a great article detailing one developer’s experience with committing sensitive information to Github. Unfortunately, this article missed the main point.
the origin of the <blink> tagI am widely credited as the inventor of the <blink> tag. For those of you who are relatively new to the Web, the <blink> tag is an HTML command that causes text to blink, and many, many people find its behavior to be extremely annoying.
My $2375 Amazon EC2 MistakeOver the holidays, I opted to try to teach myself Ruby & its companion Rails. Turns out, there are a great resources scattered about the web that can really help you drill down into rails and learn the nitty gritty details of how it all works.
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.