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How to Become a Great JavaScript Developer
Ustun Ozgur - Software Consultant and Engineer. Expert solution architect and programmer in Python (Django), JavaScript (React), .NET, Clojure and Java.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,842 posts.
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Redundancy vs. dependencies: which is worse? (2008)
I think that all other considerations are of the extrinsic real-world kind – domain modeling, usability, schedules, platforms, etc. I also think that I can show how any "good" programming practice is mainly aimed at minimizing redundancy, dependencies, or both. I even think that you can tell a "good" programmer from a…
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Optimizing an Important Atom Primitive
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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AWS Lambda: Run Java Code in Response to Events
Many AWS customers are using AWS Lambda to build clean, straightforward applications that handle image and document uploads, process log files from AWS CloudTrail, handle data streamed from Amazon Kinesis, and so forth. With the recently launched synchronous invocation capability, Lambda is fast becoming a favorite…
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Software has its own Gresham's Law
I recently found myself reading a few of Gregor Hohpe's blog posts and came across Design Patterns: More Than Meets The Eye . In it, Hohpe repeats a message that needs to be repeated every so often even now, twenty years after the publication of the GoF book: software patterns are fundamentally about human…
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Low-level web programming in Racket and a wiki in 500 lines
Racket provides a simple yet flexible web framework for serving dynamic web content.
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A brief introduction to OCaml
A couple of weeks ago I did an introductory presentation on OCaml at our local meetup groups @GotLambda . The material is in the form of one long interactive session, in a style similar to learnxinyminutes.com .
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Ember.js 1.13.0 and 2.0 Beta Released
We are pleased to announce the release of both Ember.js 1.13.0 and the first beta in the 2.0 series. This comes as the thirteenth cycle of our release process...
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Docker Containers on the Desktop
How to run docker containers on your desktop.
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Being Sneaky in C
I entered the 2014 Underhanded C Contest last year. Didn't win, but hey-ho what can you do. Still, I thought I'd post my entry and a write-up of it, in case anyone found it interesting.
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Announcing Apache Spark 1.4
Apache Spark 1.4 introduces SparkR, new DataFrame features, ML pipelines, and enhanced visualization and monitoring tools for better production debugging.
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How We Designed for Performance and Scale
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Show HN: Clojure by Example
Clojure by Example
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Elixir Streams
I previously wrote about explicitness in Elixir. One of my favorite ways the language embraces explicitness is in its distinction between eager and lazy operations on collections. Any time you use the Enum module, you’re performing an eager operation. Your collection will be transformed/mapped/enumerated immediately…
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Service-Disoriented Architecture
“You can have a second computer once you’ve shown you know how to use the first one.” -Paul Barham The first rule of distributed systems is don’t distribute your system until you have an observable reason to. Teams break this rule on the regular. People have been talking about service-oriented architecture for a long…
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Reactive MVC and the Virtual DOM
Model-View-Intent is a unidirectional data flow architecture with Virtual DOM rendering for single-page web apps, similar to React and Flux but with plenty of surprising additions.