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C Language Resources
Top 10 C Language resources that will turn you into a better programmer
Racket 5.1 Released
_posted by Eli Barzilay_ Racket version 5.1 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/The most significant change in version 5.1 is a rewrite of the GUI library. Unix/X users will see the biggest difference with this change, because DrRacket and all R...
Skype's Crazy Regex Easter Egg
Today I was chatting with a colleague on Skype, and as is often the case, misspelled something in my rush to get something across. A habit I picked up in the IRC days, days I realize have not...
Full Instapaper API now available
The full Instapaper API is now available for developers. See the Full API documentation to get started.
Google open sources "Contracts for Java"
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released
Sublime Text 2 is available now as a public alpha, for Windows, OS X, and Linux.
Pypy wants you - now's the time to start contributing to Pypy
If you ever considered contributing to PyPy, but never did so far, this is a good moment to start! :-) Recently, we merged the fast-forwa...
NYTimes Opensources Their Deep Linking JS
We’ve released an update to “Emphasis,” the feature that enables paragraph-specific anchor links and highlighted text. We’re also putting the source on GitHub for everyone to use.
SOAP: The 'S' stands for simple (not really)
There has been a long running debate in the Application Platform Services Group here at Burton Group between the REST people on one side and the SOAP people on the other. For the most part it mirrors the external debate. In one recent exchange, while discussing the complexity of SOAP and the web services framework…
R.I.P. Ruby Hash Rocket Syntax 1993-2010
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First we built an API, then we built a CMS
API design has been a point of discussion on Hacker News recently. The discussion has been focused on the process of adding on an API to your app. With our S...
Writing clean, testable, high quality code in Python
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Down the 'ls' Rabbit Hole
By: Adam Fletcher ( @adamfblahblah ) From ls(1) to the kernel and back again. Too often sysadmins are afraid to dive into the sou...
It's about time to start fighting against the Rails “magic” myth
When I first got into Ruby and Rails development, I was impressed about how everything worked. A few lines of code and so much got done. At that time, if I was reading a book or blog post that said: "just do X and Y will automagically work". I would gladly accept those instructions. However, after a while,
Android vs iOS: A Developer's Perspective
Since its inception, Whereoscope has been an iPhone-only shop. The genesis of this iPhone-fetishism goes all the way back to the very first iPhone: in a way, it was the potential that device tantal…