I believe that this is the greatest time to become a programmer. Whereas I remember paying 149$ for an undocumented Microsoft Visual C++ 1.0 twenty years ago, almost all languages and tools have now become extremely accessible, free and well documented.
[XCSSA] XOR patent ended CD32, and Commodore-AmigaI thought I knew just about all I needed to know about the decline and fall of Commodore-Amiga, having experienced it as an Amiga owner and fan, then hearing reports, reading articles, and even watching the video. But I didn't know this factoid.
Data alignment for speed: myth or reality?Compilers align data structures so that if you read an object using 4 bytes, its memory address is divisible by 4. There are two reasons for data alignment: So, data alignment is important for performance.
Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU?Once upon a time, my computer architecture professor mentioned that using a random eviction policy for caches really isn’t so bad.
How I created two images with the same MD5 hashI posted the following images the other day which although looking totally different have exactly the same MD5 hash (e06723d4961a0a3f950e7786f3766338) . The images were just two I lifted from the web in fact I could have chosen any image or indeed any arbitrary data and created a collision with it.
The Future of C# and Visual BasicProject "Roslyn" is a complete renewal of the C# and Visual Basic compilers, exposing them as full fidelity APIs for everyone to use, and providing a great foundation for evolving the tool experience and the languages themselves.
A Vital Skill for Programmers: Stepping Away From ItCoding requires relatively long stretches of uninterrupted time; this has been discussed to death already, so I hope you don't mind if I just take it for granted. To be a good programmer then, one needs the focus and the persistence to seek out that uninterrupted coding time.
Styling And Animating SVGs With CSSCSS can be used to style and animate scalable vector graphics, much like it is used to style and animate HTML elements.
How Long Does An ID Need To Be?When working with distributed systems, sequential IDs are not always an option. GUIDs are commonly used, but they’re unnecessarily long. How long do randomly generated IDs really need to be? An ID is a unique identifier for a record in a database.
64 thoughts on “jQuery 3.0: The Next Generations”It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly eight years since jQuery was released. Web development has changed a lot over the years, and jQuery has changed along with it.
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.