Better is better: improving productivity through programming languages
All you need to know about the rise and fall of programming languages. Not really related to the worse is better essay linked here earlier.
Related cards:
Otaku, Cedric's weblog: Why Java doesn't need operator overloading (and very few languages do, really)
The number of operators that you can overload is very small and each of them is attached to very specific semantics that makes little sense outside the realm of scalars and of a few other specialized mathematical concepts (e.g. matrices).
The Rise of "Worse is Better"
An ancient essay on software design that, after 20 years, should still guide you for every line of code you write.
Software Apprenticeship: Chinese Language and Programming - yam天空部落
Inheritance is built into Chinese. You might as well use it.
LoDash: isBlank and isPresent mixins
When you need to check a value for presence, don't rely on JavaScript since it considers 0 or "0" false. Also don't rely on LoDash's _.isEmpty:
if ('0') { ... } // false
if (0) { ... } // false
^
if (!_.isEmpty('0')) { ... }...
A collection of useful design resources for developers
This collection contains some useful design resources for developers. Many of them were mentioned in the Refactoring UI tutorials.
Tutorials
- Refactoring UI Videos
- [Refactori...
tesseract.js: Pure Javascript OCR for 62 Languages
This might be relevant for us since we're often managing customer documents in our apps.
I played around with the library and this is what I found:
- A 200 DPI scan of an English letter (500 KB JPEG) was processed in ~6 seconds on my desktop PC....
Meme Agora: Ruby Matters: Frameworks, DSLs, and Dietzler's Rule
The reasoning goes that if we create languages that keep people out trouble by restricting what damage they can do, we can produce software without having to pay those annoying software craftsman ridiculous amounts of money
Dropbox + git = Designer <3
One of the thornier problems in our workflow is knowing when assets are delivered from the designer and keeping them in sync with our application as they change. We used to use e-mail, Skype or sticky notes. The trouble is that the designer's file...
Chosen - makes select boxes better
Chosen is a JavaScript plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly. It is currently available in both jQuery and Prototype flavors.
The JavaScript Object Model: A deep dive into prototypes and properties
Speaker today is Henning Koch, Head of Development at makandra.
This talk will be in German with English slides.
Introduction
As web developers we work with JavaScript every day, even when our backend code uses anothe...