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C'mon, stop writing Java for Android
Stop writing Java for your Android apps! There are a slew of ways to build...
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 191 posts.
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IOS Integration Testing by Square
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released
Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 is out! Some of the notable new features in this beta are:
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Perl is no more accurate than randomly-generated language
IEEE Software is publishing a short retrospective on this project in 2024. A preprint is available on the magazine's site , or you can download a PDF directly.
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How games cheat to help players
If we’ve done our jobs right, Wind-up Knight is a fairly simple game. There are only four inputs, and only two are ever needed simultaneously. Sir Sprint, our heroic spring-loaded knight, runs forward automatically, removing the need for a classic directional pad or analog stick. The challenge is derived from careful…
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2011 Rubyist’s guide to a Mac OS X development environment
Update: A better approach is detailed in Laptop Setup for an Awesome...
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Whyday is Friday
Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries with essential commerce infrastructure. Our engineers and developers work on challenging and impactful projects spanning frontend, backend, mobile and data.
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Engineering hints you'll rarely hear
Explore the latest technologies and innovations on the architecture engineered for agility
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Git Reset Demystified
Le magazine vous livre gratuitement le meilleur de l'actualité, des conseils et astuces, des informations générales, des articles sur l'actualité régionale, etc.
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Selenium 2.0: Out Now
We are very, very pleased to announce the release of Selenium 2.0. If you’ve been waiting for a stable release since 1.0.3, now’s the chance to update. And if you do, what will you find…
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Scala on Heroku
The sixth official language on the Heroku polyglot platform is Scala, available in public beta on the Cedar stack starting today. Scala deftly blends...
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All about 64-bit programming in one place
Access technologies that use data for modern code, machine learning, big data, analytics, networking, storage, servers, cloud, and more.
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40% off Pragmatic Programmers books this week
In honor of this week’s Agile 2011 conference, our titles are on sale for 40% off both paperback and ebook formats. Use the coupon code AGILEWEEK , expires 8/12/11.
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Introducing Google JS Test
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Profiling Go Programs
How to use Go's built-in profiler to understand and optimize your programs.
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Announcing the first release of batman.js
It gives us great pleasure to finally announce the release of batman.js to the JavaScript community today. This release represents the first code dump of something we’ve been working hard on at Shopify for a long time, so we’re very excited to get it into your hands and see what you do with it.
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LLVM 3.0 Type System Rewrite
One of the most pervasive IR (and thus compiler API) changes in LLVM 3.0 was a complete reimplementation of the LLVM IR type system. This change was long overdue (the original type system lasted from LLVM 1.
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A Python Optimization Anecdote
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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GNU Compiler Collection 4.6.0 released with Go programming language support
The GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the release of GCC 4.6.4.
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Setting Up A New Machine for Ruby Development - as used at 37signals these days
It used to be a jarring experience to setup a new machine for development, but progress has paved the dirt road into a silky smooth autobahn. These are the tools we use today: Homebrew: Remember how painful it used to be to get imagemagick installed? Now it takes about a minute. “brew insta…
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Faster JavaScript parsing
Over the past year or so I’ve almost doubled the speed of SpiderMonkey’s JavaScript parser. I did this by speeding up both the scanner ( bug 564369 , bug 584595 , bug 588648 , bug 639420 , bug 645598 ) and the parser ( bug 637549 ). I used patch stacks in several of those bugs, and so in those six bugs I actually…