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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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Most mobile robots are not truly autonomous; most operate in simplified environments. Almost all non-industrial robots still require a helping hand from humans. However, we are interested in building robots which will be self-sufficient in terms of decision making and energy - robots which can be left unsupervised to organize their work and nourishment. A proof-of-concept vehicle capable of detecting and collecting slugs... for fuel.
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Yes, Commodore is still around and selling computers. And believe it or not, the firm has just unveiled a small-form-factor PC that's purportedly fit for use as a home-theater system, a workstation, and a gaming machine — whatever tickles your fancy. It sure is tiny, and it might be attractive (beauty is in the eye of the beholder), but is it a powerhouse? A look inside the new Commodore Amiga.
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Teachers and researchers in the field of online education have recently published the Manifesto for Teaching Online in conjunction with the University of Edinburgh. I really like this document because it makes you question what you believe about teaching and learning spaces. Distance is a positive principle, not a deficit. Online can be the privileged mode.
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The Windows 8 user interface is designed to scale to systems of all sizes. Like Windows versions of old, it will have to scale all the way from 1366×768 10-inch tablets up to 2560×1440 30-inch desktop monitors and beyond. But it's not just different numbers of pixels that Windows 8 will have to cope with: different sizes of pixels matter too. Windows 8 will have to scale from screens with around 96 dots per inch all the way to screens with almost 300 dpi. Windows 8 is Retina display-ready.
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With SUA, aka "Subsystem for Unix based Applications," being deprecated - marked for death, likely not being included in a future Windows version - it's a good time to look at the other options available, many that have been around for a while and have a very loyal and thriving community. Cygwin : UNIX shell for Windows.
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Quote: A blog posting on the Pirate Bay site said the service had gone offline for a few hours on 18th March to move its front machines (which redirect a user’s traffic to a masked location). "We have now decided to try to build something extraordinary," it said.
What this means is that it could use small GPS-controlled drones – availing of low-price radio equipment and small computers, citing the Raspberry Pi as an example – “that will float some kilometers up in the air”
http://www.themusicnetwork.com/music-features/industry/2012/03/22/pirate-bay-take-to-international-airspace/[^]
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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In this installment we talk to Sebastien Lambla, consultant, blogger, teacher and open-source developer. Meet the coder behind OpenWrap and OpenRasta.
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