“A JavaScript pattern and antipattern code collection that covers function patterns, jQuery patterns, design patterns, general patterns, literals and constructor patterns, object creation patterns, code reuse patterns (upcoming), DOM and browser patterns (upcoming). Weekly roundups (pattern updates) will be regularly tweeted.”
“…if you seek to be a better developer, dig deep and learn the real basic building blocks for our profession.”
“…hacker culture has much to offer in terms of what good education looks like. Many of the best practices of the software development world carry over to education as well.”
“One could argue that Apple’s success has come at the expense of the American manufacturing workforce, but… it seems the workforce Apple would have needed in America never existed to begin with.”
“NHibernate does afford a way to make calls using the plain old ADO.Net API. To be more precise, NHibernate allows users to enlist IDbCommands into NHibernate transactions.”
“Rake is a software task management tool, written in ruby for managing ruby projects. By leveraging gems like albacore, rake can be used to automate tasks such as builds, configuration, assembly versioning, database deployments, unit testing, etc. for .NET projects as well.”
“Sublime Text 2 is one of the fastest and most incredible code editors to be released in a long time! With a community and plugin ecosystem as passionate as this one, it just might be impossible for any other editor to catch up. I’ll show you my favorite tips and tricks today.”
“…the only way to keep your freedom - on the Internet or anywhere else - is to defend everyone else’s freedom as well, by keeping your government tiny and starved and rigidly constrained in what it can do.”
“During all the shouting about SOPA and proposed blackouts to ‘protest’, the organization that actually runs the DNS root servers, ICANN, the backbone of the web, has been quite busy in plain view on changing the game, in favor of the government… The real change, that of your privacy online, is being made in plain sight by former Director of the National Cyber Security Center of the Department of Homeland Security Rod Beckstrom, current CEO of ICANN.”
“Donald Knuth (b. 1938), American computing pioneer, is known for his greatly influential multi-volume work, ‘The Art of Computer Programming’, his novel ‘Surreal Numbers’, his invention of TeX and METAFONT electronic publishing tools and his quirky sense of humour.”
