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They're for holding your pants up. Duh.
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If you are unemployed and sitting in your underwear in your mommy's basement and posting on the web, of course you don't need them.
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ASP.NET developers have to think carefully about more than business requirements. The environment, team, tools, deployment, performance, security, and other factors weigh in when it comes to building robust Web applications. When thinking about using ASP.NET on Azure, you or your team might wonder what challenges an ASP.NET deployment on Azure will entail. Let's take a look at some of the common concerns. It's the same, only very different.
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In JavaScript, all numbers are floating point numbers, encoded in double precision according to the IEEE 754 standard for floating point arithmetic. That standard handles the sign in a manner similar to sign-and-magnitude encoding for integers and therefore also has a signed zero. Whenever you represent a number digitally, it can become so small that it is indistinguishable from 0, because the encoding is not precise enough to represent the difference. JavaScript has two zeros: -0 and +0. We explain why that is and where it matters in practice.
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While delivering a training recently, I got a request to put together a JVM tuning cheat sheet. Given the 50+ parameters available on the Sun hotspot, this request is understandable. I’ve tried to narrow down the most important flags that will solve 80% of JVM performance needs with 20% of the tuning effort. A mind map to help visualize the relationships and dependencies between various JVM tuning flags.
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While preparing for my talk at Codemania I started filling my slides with links, clearly not something that scales. So, instead, here is a big list of interesting tools and resources that can help you journey through the murky waters of web performance. 50+ tools and and other resources to make your site run faster, stronger... better!
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Windows 8‘s Metro interface may be controversial, but it looks like few PC users will complain about the new operating system’s performance. The PCWorld Labs put the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 through a battery of tests and found it generally faster - sometimes a lot faster - than Windows 7. It's only the Consumer Preview. They still have time to build in the slow.
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The thing that is often overlooked about diversity is that teams composed of something other than a cognitive monoculture often have a competitive edge over their less-diverse counterparts. Take, for example, gender in tech companies. Groups that include women and men outperform those comprised of only one gender.
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In late autumn of last year, more than six months after Discovery landed for the final time, NASA crews began peeling back the orbiter’s skin, clipping wires, and pulling hydraulics. They removed and analyzed propellant tanks and valves and scrutinized electronics, looking for evidence of deterioration the way coroners look for signs of illness during autopsies. Here's what they found. Were the best estimates and educated guesses of NASA engineers trustworthy?
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His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large. Along the way he helped to transform seven industries: personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, retail stores, and digital publishing. He thus belongs in the pantheon of America’s great innovators. The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: He thus belongs in the pantheon of America’s great innovators.
Great innovator? Great salesman, maybe!
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Traditional virtualization is ill-suited for cloud-native applications. ZeroVM attempts to provide a new virtualization platform that uses higher-level abstraction, built-in storage capabilities, better transiency and improved elasticity. It's a work in progress, but worth checking out. An open-source, lightweight virtualization platform.
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Obviously the police have nothing better to do. Maybe less are needed.
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The demise of Lisp at JPL is a tragedy. The language is particularly well suited for the kind of software development that is often done here: one-of-a-kind, highly dynamic applications that must be developed on extremely tight budgets and schedules. The efficacy of the language in that kind of environment is amply documented by a long record of unmatched technical achievements. The rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab.
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In the past, programmers didn't get into wars over programming languages.
COBOL programmers did their work quietly in banks and commercial enterprises.
Fortran programmers did scientific programming.
Assembly language programmers wrote programs when speed was of the essence or getting down and dirty was necessary.
And nobody went around saying EXEC IV on the Univac was superior to MVS on the IBM 360.
Nobody went around with his nose up in the air.
It took Unix, C, C++, Java, Python, etc., to create the current environment where if you don't write in C, C++ or Java under Unix/Windows/MacOS, you are not a good programmer.
The closing of the programmer's mind portends nothing good for the future.
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Funny you should put Java in the list. Java and C# are two sides of the same coin. I work in C#. I did work with Visual Basic at one time, and did get the somewhat deserved discrimination.
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Microsoft came out with C# because Sun Microsystems sued Microsoft from using the name "Java" in any form, trying to keep control over how the Java language evolved (or, how Java didn't evolve, since Sun considered that Java was already perfect as it was ).
But my primary point was about the closing of the programmer's mind which caused Lisp to be eliminated at JPL.
If that could happen at a place as dedicated to science as JPL, what would happen at a bank or a hospital?
And to think that these programmers actually claim to have a college education! They are so much inferior to people who get their computer training at DeVry University or the ITT educational institutions for the simple reason those guys do not put on any airs.
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I have looked at lisp many years ago when the syntax was extremely alkward. My initial impression was the same as APL, and that was they did a horrible job with syntax. Fortunatley, I beleive, they improved the syntax. Understood the general idan, but never how to program. remember I worked with a guy that was very good at lisp, and would occationally take jobes, but there just was not enough demand to make ends meet. Just like functional programming, wish I better understood how to use it. With time I have adapted very well to ood, lisp, etc. Still takes time to get one's head around it.
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Recently I had the opportunity to debug the clipboard in Windows, and I thought I’d share some of the things I learned. The clipboard is one of those parts of Windows that many of us use dozens (hundreds?) of times a day and don’t really think about. Before working on this case, I had never even considered how it works under the hood. It turns out that there’s more to it than you might think. The magic behind Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.
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Rice has floated include the notion of a Pigovian tax designed to correct the current "broken" market outcome in the software industry. That's to say, end users pay the price for shoddy software through attacks, bolted-on security solutions, and the never-ending patching process. If security related vulnerabilities were somehow taxed, the cost burden would be shifted more from the consumer of software to the software manufacturer. How, exactly, would a developer tax on bugs work?
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Despite us entering a seemingly golden age of browser consistency, what I am seeing is an increasing reliance on a whole slew of polyfills, CSS frameworks and boilerplate starting points. I am concerned that these things are being promoted as something everyone should include from the outset, rather than being a toolkit you draw on to deal with problems once they have arisen. We’re in a really exciting time for standards-based web development. So why all the kludgey tricks?
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When I first started designing interactive products, it was a struggle. Small projects were fine. But when the interactions got more complex, I noticed that tools, team communication, and even my own thinking started breaking down. I see many startups facing these same problems today. So I wanted to share some of the ways that I’ve changed my design process over the years to handle the complexity of large products. Here are some great tips for keeping the design process focused on real user stories.
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