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HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla
Today Shumway landed in the Firefox codebase. Shumway is a way to support playing Flash (SWF files) without the Adobe Flash Player. The Adobe Flash Player has been plagued with bugs so being to play Flash without the normal player is a big step forward for security. Shumway is an HTML5 technology experiment that…
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The Six Stages of Debugging (2012)
[ This is not mine. I posted it in the interest of personal archival because the oldest mention I could track down on the web appeared on a now-defunct weblog . In the meantime, Mike W. Cremer (who bills himself The Newton™ Scapegoat ☺ ) has claimed credit for coining it after a particularly frustrating DMA debugging…
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Memory – Part 4: Intersec’s custom allocators
malloc() is extremely convenient because it is generic. It does not make any assumptions about the context of the allocation and the deallocation. Such allocators may just follow each other, or be separated by a whole job execution. They may take place in the same thread, or not… Since it is generic, each allocation…
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Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages
Lots of important MemShrink stuff has happened in the last 27 days: 22 bugs were fixed , and some of them were very important indeed.
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bliki: Test Pyramid
Write most of your tests at a low level (unit tests) with a few broad-stack tests, eg via UI. UI tests tend to be fragile and slow.
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Replacing Python: candidates
This post evaluates the programming languages ATS, C#, Go, Haskell, OCaml, Python and Rust to try to decide which would be the best language in which …
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Replacing Python
In the first post, I took a brief look at the programming languages ATS, C#, Go, Haskell, OCaml, Python and Rust to try to decide which would be the …
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Gevent For the Working Python Developer
The structure of this tutorial assumes an intermediate level knowledge of Python but not much else. No knowledge of concurrency is expected. The goal is to give you the tools you need to get going with gevent, help you tame your existing concurrency problems and start writing asynchronous applications today.
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Why we're supporting Typed Clojure
The CircleCI blog is your home for DevOps, continuous integration and delivery, and engineering productivity. Explore tutorials, guides, and best practices.
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Choc: Bret Victor's 'Learnable Programming' implemented in Javascript
Thinking procedurally is one of the hardest concepts to grasp for the beginning programmer.
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Dolphin Emulator and OpenGL drivers - Hall of Fame/Shame
In light of the recent announcements by NVIDIA and AMD in support of Linux for their graphics drivers, we would like to share with the world some of the experience we had developing our open source project, Dolphin, a GameCube and Wii emulator for Windows, Linux, Mac and recently Android....
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Webhooks Are Magic
Around the Iron.io office, I’m known as a bit of a webhook enthusiast. When asked what my favourite features of the Iron.io platform are, our webhook
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JetBrains releases open-source Python IDE
PyCharm is the professional Python IDE for you and your agents – ship web, data, and ML code you can trust.
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How IPython Notebook and Github have changed the way I teach Python
I teach in a small high school in southeast Alaska, and each year I teach an Introduction to Programming class. I recently learned how to use IPython Notebook, and it has completely changed the way…
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Musings about Debian and Python
On a regular basis, I find myself the odd-man-out when it comes to talking about how to work with Python on Debian systems. I’m going to write this and post it so that I might be able to point people at my thoughts without having to write the same email in response to each thread that pops up.
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Less is exponentially more (2012)
Here is the text of the talk I gave at the Go SF meeting in June, 2012. This is a personal talk. I do not speak for anyone else on the Go...
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Edward C++Hands
I’ve been looking for a good analogy of what programming in C++ feels like and I remembered this 1990 Tim Burton movie, Edward Scissorhands. It’s a darker version of Pinocchio, shot in …
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Web development in C: Crazy?
Preliminary verdict: crazy like a fox (ish)
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Distributed systems for fun and profit
git , Single page HTML , Kindle .mobi , PDF , .epub , HTML for printing , book cover .