…high school degree), and Jamie " jwz" Zawinski ( Netscape and XScreenSaver), just to name a few off the top of my head. Sooner or later, in a group of developers, you'll hear some kind of debate as to whether a formal computer science education is truly necessary.
The debate is even more applicable for game development. Most universities have a game development course or two in their computer science offerings, but full game development academic programs seem to be …
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…there, talking to Doug Crockford? They all go for coffee and chat. Steele and Crockford browbeat wimpy Netscape management into giving Brenden and Walter a year to do a great job on JavaScript. 'nuff said.
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For those not as familiar with them, cookies were introduced by Netscape in 1994 as part of the Mosaic Netscape browser beta version 0.9. (Which later became Netscape Navigator and then Mozilla Firefox.) Netscape's client, MCI, was looking for a way to retain a sense of state, but not on the server side. Cookies were chosen as the technical solution to this challenge.
Simple in form and structure, cookies are an effective solution that allow small text files of information …
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…as the guy who built the first widely used web browser. Or maybe you think of him as a founder of Netscape. Or of Opsware. Or of Ning. You get the picture. We'll be honored to have him on stage.
Among the reasons we're excited is that Marc helped popularize the idea of product/market fit , homing in on the absolute importance of creating a product that resonates with a specific market--a key concept that is foundational to many Lean Startup techniques.
Marc wrote …
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…use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded. In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.
On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries—without …
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…not a core part of even the HTTP 1.1 spec. Rather it was first proposed by Netscape and then released as an RFC yet all browser vendors support it and the web as we know it would not work without it. That is how the web works. We build small simple standards that get adopted or forgotten by the market.
OAuth vs OpenID = OpenID Connect
OpenID was built to allow logging in on your site by asking another site who you are. The standard was very complicated …
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…article that I'm liberally quoting here is dated 1995. You may remember 1995 as the year Netscape shipped Navigator 2.0 and with it JavaScript , a language inspired by Self and Scheme.
What did the future look like back then? What has changed in those 25 years? And what can we learn to save us from yet another delayed re-discovery?
Maps and prototypes
The underlying data structures in Self are maps and prototypes:
A computation in Self consists solely of …
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…co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, Opsware Inc. and Netscape "This book should be mandatory reading for entrepreneurs, and the same goes for managers who want better entrepreneurial instincts. Ries's book is loaded with fascinating stories—not to mention countless practical principles you'll dearly wish you'd known five years ago." — Dan Heath, co-author of Switch and Made to Stick " The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more …
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…treated JavaScript as Java's poor cousin, but who could blame them? Netscape itself did the same, according to this explanation by JavaScript creator Brendan Eich (written in response to Jamie Zawinski blog post "Every day I learn something new...and stupid" , in which he talked about the wacky way all JavaScript numbers are double floats):
JS had to "look like Java" only less so, be Java's dumb kid brother or boy-hostage …
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…strongly associated with specific versions. The very mention of Internet Explorer 6 or Netscape 4.77 should send a shiver down the spine of any self-respecting geek. And for good reason! Who can forget what a breakout hit Firefox 3 was, or the epochs that Internet Explorer 7, 8 and 9 represent in Microsoft history. But Chrome? Chrome is so fluid that it has transcended software versioning altogether.
This fluidity is difficult to achieve for client software that runs on millions of …
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