One week after the launch of iOS 8, Apple released its first update for the new OS — iOS 8.0.1 — on Wednesday afternoon. It was meant to fix a slew of bugs, but that's not what happened. Immediately after the update hit, reports began flooding in that iOS 8.0.
I Knew How To Validate An Email Address Until I Read The RFCRaise your hand if you know how to validate an email address. For those of you with your hand in the air, put it down quickly before someone sees you. It’s an odd sight to see someone sitting alone at the keyboard raising his or her hand. I was speaking metaphorically.
Worse than Heartbleed? Today's Bash bug could break security for yearsLinux users got a nasty surprise today, as a security team at Red Hat uncovered a subtle but dangerous bug in the Bash shell, one of the most versatile and widely used utilities in Linux. It's being called the Bash bug, or Shellshock.
Forever AloneDan’s team had a large re-engineering project. They wanted to remove some Java dependencies and replace the UI layer with their new, in-house developed standard library. Like most large maintenance projects, it was big, had a few hidden traps, but was mostly time consuming tedium.
21 Ways to Minimize Employee RetentionIt's important to be able to maximize turnover and confusion while minimizing employee retention. This is by no mean an exhaustive list, but it will, without a doubt, be successful, unlike your business. Eliminate all privacy. Employees should feel like they’re being watched at all times.
Careful with that Buffer…Last week I was sorting through several sets of Microsoft C 5.1 disks from 1988 (more about that later).
In de lobby van dit hotel hangt 's werelds enige analoog-digitale klokVoor wie wel met z'n tijd mee wil gaan, maar analoog een warm hart toedraagt hangt in het Londonse hotel Ham Yard deze super chique klok.
The Oyster Effect In Software EngineeringStudies have shown that people value the products they own by how difficult they were to obtain. Things become more valuable when a sacrifice of money, time or energy was provided in exchange. This notion has given birth to hundreds of marketing techniques.
"The Mess We're In" by Joe ArmstrongJoe Armstrong is one of the inventors of Erlang. When at the Ericsson computer science lab in 1986, he was part of the team who designed and implemented the first version of Erlang. He has written several Erlang books including Programming Erlang Software for a Concurrent World. Joe has a PhD in com
C# 6.0 What's NewFor many years now, Microsoft has been working on a re-write of their C# and VB compiler. We have known about it for some years now and it came as a big surprise recently when Microsoft announced that they would open source their new compilers.
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.