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Are there major differences between projects in different languages? Is it possible to quantify these differences? I decided to try to gather some hard numbers.

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Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating system. Unfortunately, setting these virtual machines up without Microsoft's VirtualPC can be extremely diffi...

Wintermute Engine Development Kit is a set of tools for creating and running graphical “point&click” adventure games, both traditional 2D ones and modern 2.5D games (3D characters on 2D backgrounds). The kit includes the runtime interpreter (Winte...

In game development, it's very common to want a random number. Maybe you want to determine damage done, if there was a critical, or what slot on the board to insert your piece at. And surprisingly (or perhaps, not), programmers are often looking t...

I am talking about development speed. When your application starts growing and you start adding gems, it starts to take really long to start up, be it the server, console or just running a single spec.

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UML is applying an abstraction at the wrong end of the problem. It is primarily used to sketch object models for inferior languages.

When working with large Sass files you will notice that the first request after a change to a Sass file takes quite some time. This is because the CSS files are being generated from the Sass files the moment the applicatio...