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A text every software engineer should skim or even read…
The following text, by Neal Stephenson, a long but very nice read, is a commentary on why the proprietary operating systems business is unlikely to remain profitable in the future because of competition from free software. …This is “the Word” — one man’s word, certainly — about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence…. In […]
Meet John Musser, API Pioneer
March 12, 2013 [This text is originally from ApiEconomist. Find the original link below.]JOHN MUSSER IS THE FOUNDER OF PROGRAMMABLEWEB, THE LEADING ONLINE RESOURCE ON OPEN APIS. JOHN IS AN INDUSTRY EXPERT ON APIS, QUOTED IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIMES, FORBES, AND WIRED. HE’S A FREQUENT SPEAKER AT CONFERENCES INCLUDING SXSW, DREAMFORCE, […]
3 great talks about Git version control system
I’ve recently been a pretty strong advocate of using Git as a version control system. It is inherently different from any other system around and being distributed is definitely something that I enjoy a lot. Let me share here 3 nice talks that I’ve enjoyed and which all describe Git and will allow you to […]
Everyone should learn about coding
I’m glad you checked out this page. Chances are you already have some kind of connexion with programming, writing code, building software, being in the computers industry… This video gives another reason about why everyone must pay attention to programming, coding. You should do too. No matter which field you are in. Check the video […]
Are you a developer or a tester ? Or can you be both ?
Have you very thought about triple-clicking a button to try breaking an application ? Are unit tests enough ? Do they mean you can ship your product ? Can you have your project fail even with 100% test coverage ? Developers think about the way things should work. Testers, good testers think about what could […]
TypeScript explained by Anders Hejlsberg
Do you Denmark ? Do you know Turbo Pascal ? Do you know Delphi ? Are you a software developer ? Do you know C# ? If you answered Yes to one of the previous questions, then you might know Anders. He is a Technical Fellow in the developer division at Microsoft, author of Turbo […]
Garbage Collector demystified
The Garbage Collector. It’s a wonderful “invention” which bring happiness to developers working with managed code. Have you ever used malloc, new, delete… ? Early C++ programmers can tell about how tedious it can be to allocate and de-allocate memory every time you use them in un-managed programs. The kind of problems that can occur […]
JavaScript – The Good Parts
JavaScript has become the most important programming language in the world. It’s the only language that people feel they don’t need to learn it before they start using it. It’s also the world most misunderstood programming language. Check the notes and remarks below and come back to see the video. JS is becoming the virtual […]
.NET Debugging with Tess
If you work on .NET stack, you might have already encountered situations where your application, for some reasons is using a lot of memory. To investigate, we as developers, will most of the times, use Profilers tools. Profilers help troubleshooting those issues but what they mainly do is give information about memory allocation. What they […]
Michael Arrington
Michael Arrington, a former corporate attorney who, via his TechCrunch blog, has become one of the most influential figures on the Web, is the quintessential blogger: intense, passionate, consumed with his subject, opinionated, sleep-deprived, forward-thinking, easy to irritate and apt to air his grudges in public. Arrington’s vast network of Silicon Valley sources—many gained through […]
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