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Complete checklist for submitting an iPhone/iPad app to the App Store. An example of the checklist-style of software testing you can do with Testpad. Originally published in 2012. FULLY UPDATED FOR 2018.
If this isn’t a Zawinski quote, it should be. I have avoided the JVM my entire life. I am presently confronted with problems which fit in the JVM; JVM libraries, concurrency, giant data: all …
This blog is about my work on the Postgres open source database, and is published on Planet PostgreSQL. PgLife allows monitoring of all Postgres community activity.
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Following up on my recent Scala posts , some commented that because I haven't used Scala seriously, my opinion is of little value. I respo...
Over the years one of the most frequent requests on WordPress.com has been to allow bloggers to earn money from their blog through ads. We’ve resisted advertising so far because most of it we…
Intro Fuzzy search algorithms (also known as similarity search algorithms) are a basis of spell-checkers and full-fledged search engines lik...
Some people have a legitimate reason to feel depressed, but not me. I just woke up one day feeling sad and helpless for absolutely no reason...
For twenty years, the fastest known algorithm to multiply two n-by-n matrices, due to Coppersmith and Winograd, took a leisurely O(n2.376) steps. Last year, though, in his PhD thesis, Andrew Stot…
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As a co-creator and one of the two Benevolent Dictators for Life of Django , my responsibility is to guide the open-source project forward. I did a great job of this for several years: from our open-sourcing in July 2005 (and for about two years prior to that), I was rather obsessed with it, contributing thousands of…
We expect streams of text to scroll down in our browsers. But almost all of them scroll incorrectly.
Effects, health concerns, suppliers, prices & rational ordering.
In my earlier 20s when I knew everything, I was a much bigger evangelist for my technology choices. I’m accused of fanboyism a lot more these days, but only because Hacker News keeps sending huge waves of people here who tell me I’m an idiot. But I used to be much more annoying with pushing my choices onto others.
This idea is a complete rip off an article that appeared in Wired a little while ago and it got me thinking what would my list for Compu...
Goal reached! My regular income still seems to grow. My lastly introduced in my “Make Money on Android” eBook method seems to be working very well (not only for me – check lastly …
One of the goals of Firefox have always been to make the lives of web developers as easy and productive as possible, by providing tools and a very extensible web ...
People often ask, “What’s it like to be an independent developer?”, “You guys are millionaires right?”, “Your job sounds awesome, tell me more!”. So let…
Hi. I think math is really cool, but, most people (sadly) don't think so. This includes many programmers who in fact enjoy many of the sam...
Or “Top Ten Diet Myths Debunked“. That would have fit almost as well. Ok, so in retrospect, I think I screwed up on the title. Many myths just happened to be connected to intermittent fasting (meal frequency, breakfast skipping, etc.). Well, live and learn. November 4th Addendum Section added at the end of the…
