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Using JavaScript to write fast, interactive web applications has exploded in popularity over the past few years. JavaScript apps offer many strengths over traditional server-rendered applications. Most notably, rich interactions and lightning-...
[For your winter reading pleasure, we're pleased to present this three-part series of new material by Bjarne Stroustrup. Part one is here , part two is here . Today we complete the series just in time for the holidays. Enjoy. -- Ed.]
How to use go generate.
Meteor, say hello to cross-platform native app-development. Qt, say hello to a modern, reactive web back-end. TL;DR You can write a nativ...
Several months ago I promised a follow-up to my previous blog post about turn-based game loops in my roguelike . Then I got completely sidetracked by self-publishing my book , Game Programming Patterns , and forgot all about it. I totally left you hanging.
Arthur’s thoughts on coding, software engineering, and other interesting things.
TL:DR Successive, well intentioned, changes to architecture and technology throughout the lifetime of an application can lead to a fragmente...
Learn more about what Meteor.js is...
Fun with functional programming in Python | Ben Kurtovic's blog
How much overhead should we expect from enabling integer overflow checks? Using a compiler flag or built-in intrinsics, we should be able to do the check with a conditional branch that branches based on the overflow flag that add and sub set. Code that looks like
I read a post about CSRF on DigitalOcean (in Russian) by Sergey Belove . My first reaction was, obviously, how come ? DigitalOcean is not k...
Permissions on Android are tricky to get right from a user perspective. Usually you only want to do something minor and innocuous (pre-fill a form with a contact's info) but the actual permission you have to request gives you much more power than necessary (access to ALL contact
Free yourself from the chains of jQuery by embracing and understanding the modern Web API and discovering various directed libraries to help you fill in the gaps.
Report of my one game a month challenge during 2014.
Given a software code repository together with all commit history, can you spot potentially problematic parts of the software?This is the question I have bee...
Go 1.4 adds support for Android, go generate, optimizations, and more.
There are two stories I particularly like about the problem of bootstrapping self-referential tools. This one : Another way ...
It's possible to use Node.js with a browser shell to build cross-platform desktop applications using HTML, CSS and JS. Let's look at some of the options.
