§ Froont — an interesting approach to responsive Web design .
§ CAP has a FAQ :
16. Have I ‘got around' or ‘beaten' the CAP theorem?
§ Interesting study of small vs large, open vs closed source projects :
In other words, if you're looking for bug-free apps, look for a small open source project or a large proprietary piece of software, because those have the best chance of having few defects and high overall code quality.
- Ruby Inside: The Last 2 Weeks in Ruby: Rails 3.2.6, Savon 1.0, RailsInstaller for OS X, Pow 0.4.0, Rails 2 Asset Pipeline
- Global Nerdy: Scenes from MinneBar 2011
- The Usware Blog - Django Web Development: Django for a Rails Developer
- Phusion Corporate Blog: The Road to Passenger 3: Technology Preview 3 - Closing the gap between development and production & rethinking the word "easy"
- Kalzumeus Software: What My User Survey Taught Me
- Scout ~ The Blog: Removing deadweight - cleaning up our Rails app
§ Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence :
But here's where it gets interesting. Every programmer who's been working in the real world for more than a few months has run into the problems I'm describing above.
And yet... we keep on making these just spectacularly bad estimates.
§ Using checklists for code review :
One of the ways that I avoid the pitfall of giving superficial reviews is with checklists. I have a bunch …
- Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: JRuby 1.7.0, Passenger 4.0b1, Ruby 2.0 Feature Freeze
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1090
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: My wife is getting really into whiskey
- Article RSS Feed: December 2012 Meeting
- JJinuxLand: HTML5 Dev Conf
- WriteLessCode Blog: Testing with CoffeeScript and Mocha
§ Common Misconceptions About Touch .
Above anything else a responsible programmer values clarity. Not only does she value clear code, but also clear documentation, clear communication and a clear vision of where she and her project is going.
§ What you need to know about Big O and paging :
What good is an O(log2(n)) algorithm if those operations cause page faults and slow disk operations? For most relevant datasets an O(n) or …
- Luigi Montanez: On Starting a Startup
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - John Straw (YellowPages.com) and Matt Aimonetti (Merb)
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #716
- Coding Horror: The Eternal Lorem Ipsum
- Lessons Learned: Thank you
- Programblings: Rubinius for the Layman, Part 1: Rubies All the Way Down
§ Tools for debugging and profiling Node.js apps .
§ How to foster creativity by suggesting the worst possible idea: McDonald's Theory :
I use a trick with co-workers when we're trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald's.
An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously agrees that we can't possibly go to McDonald's, and better lunch suggestions emerge. Magic!
§ How to stop lying with charts .
- ZURB: What We Can Learn from 7 Complete Product Flops
- danieltenner.com: How to lose weight
- Ruby-coloured glasses: Link: The hungry programmer
- Signal vs. Noise: Lessons to learn from Danny Meyer's Shake Shack
- Global Nerdy: Yellow Peril 2.0
- Concentration de studioConcentration de studio: shortformblog: Newest reason to sleep in: Taco Bell now serves...
§ Best of Fluent 2012 : Maintainable JavaScript by Nicholas Zakas .
§ This Picture Sums Up What User Experience is All About .
§ XKCD answers: Is It Worth the Time?
§ What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy?
§ Pinboard :
Let me tell you a story about this one time a friend used anecdotal data, and it worked out great for them
§ 5 useful tips for a better commit message :
Answer the following questions:
Why is this change necessary?
How does it address the issue?
What side effects does this change have?
§ The Power of Positivity, In Moderation: The Losada Ratio :
The Losada ratio is the sum of the positivity in a system divided by the sum of its negativity. A ratio of 3.0 to 6.0 has been found to be highly correlated with high performance, with 2.9 the dividing line between normal performance and flourishing performance.
§ Creating Intrinsic Ratios for Video : CSS styling an element with variable width and auto-scaling height.
I have found that return and ridicule are highly correlated over the years. We have made more money on things that were highly ridiculed than on any other cohort. When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.
§ HipChat Tips and Tricks for the Power User .
§ High Availability with MongoDB for Fun and Profit . Yes. Quite possible.
§ shame.css :
The idea of shame.css is that you have a totally new stylesheet reserved just for your hacky code. The code you have to write to get the release out on time, but the code that makes you ashamed.
§ Unix Philosophy and Node.js :
Unix Philosophy is an outlook for software development, not any specific technical development in software. It is an ideal to reach …
This can feel like 1998, but the web development community has learned a lot since then. Strategies like progressive enhancement and modern tools like Litmus can help us build HTML emails suited for today's Babylon of inconsistent desktop clients, various web clients, tablets, smartphones, and high resolution displays.
§ "Point free concatenative functional programming" sounds way better …
§ indev is a minimalist replacement for Makefiles using JS/CS . The 20% of Make features you use all the time, a proper language, and all of ShellJS commands : cp, mkdir, ls, exec.
§ Finally an accessible resource (to Web devs) about accessibility (in Web Dev). The Accessibility Project — A community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier .
§ Yummy cookies across domains : mitigating cross-domain cookie attackes from hosted content.