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Dev build 3063 is out now, with a few small improvements. There is now an equivalent to the OSX command line tool on windows: subl.exe. While the basic functionality was previously available via just passing sublime_text.exe command line arguments, because it was a windowed application rather than a console one, it…
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.1.3.This is a patchlevel release of the stable 2.1 series.
The Khronos™ Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and…
In a recent post , Andreas declared his love for the programming language FORTRAN. He concluded his post with the question “Can a functional...
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This tutorial shows how to build the Linux kernel, add a small modification to it and debug the new kernel using Visual Studio with VisualKernel.
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-...
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asm.js is a subset of JavaScript that is very easy to optimize. Most often it is generated by a compiler, such as Emscripten, from C or C++ code. The result ...
We’ve just kicked off an internal distributed-systems seminar. Our inaugral paper was Lamport’s classic “Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distrib...
Over the years many people have complained about the so-called “religiosity” of some of the proponents of Test Driven Development. The recent brouhaha over TDD has, once again, brought these complaints to the fore. So I thought it would be a good idea to talk about when TDD does not work.
Posted by Jacob Kaplan-Moss on Feb. 6, 2014
Why your API needs a vendor approved client.
Hello everyone! We've wrapped up the Warsaw sprint, so I would like to describe some branches which have been recently merged and which i...
Today we are releasing Ghost 0.4 - the next minor release of the Ghost blogging platform. With a great deal of shiny new things. This release represents a total of 374 commits across 178 issues from 88 incredible contributors all over the world. It's a cleaner, faster, more sophisticated
