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Square Releases Open Source WebSocket Client for Objective-C
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 744 posts.
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Lisp Hackers: Peter Seibel
Peter Seibel has helped more people (including me) discover and become user of Lisp as probably noone else in the last decade with his Pract...
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Backbone patterns
Here, I try to document the good practices that our team has learned along the way building Backbone applications. This document assumes that you already have some knowledge of Backbone.js , jQuery , and of course, JavaScript itself.
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Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd edition
News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
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Windows 8 Doesn’t Want Your App. Try Again Later
A developer blog about the small things that make good software great.
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Stripe open-sources Einhorn
Einhorn: the language-independent shared socket manager - contribsys/einhorn
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Such a Little Thing: The Semicolon in Rust
Look at a tiny syntax detail that shows up in current versions of rust that has profound implications on how the language deals with almost everything being an expression.
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PostgreSQL when it is not your job
( Note beforehand: I didn’t get everything. You really also have to look at his slides for the details. Thanks Christophe for posting the slides right afterwards !)
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My experiences at a woman's programming workshop
I heard about a Python tutorial that was going on this weekend, and with well over a decade of Python experience, I decided to volunteer to help students. I hadn't realized it was a women's workshop put on by PyLadies , but I'm glad I went because I came out of the event with a number of observations that extend out…
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Why you should never use hash functions for message authentication
The general thrust of this post is: use a MAC function like HMAC to sign data, don’t use hash functions. Although not all hash functions suffer from the problem I’m going to illustrate, in general using a hash function for message authentication comes with a lot of potential problems because those functions aren’t…
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Books of a Highly Effective Programmer (2009)
Like many programmers, I’m always on the lookout for the perfect programming book. Over the years I have tried to enumerate a few key examples , however after reading them all I am still left wanting. However, I recently came across a couple interesting blog posts [^motivation] that motivated me that the only way to…
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Backbone has made me a better programmer
Andy Appleton is a web developer based in Berkshire, UK.
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Building a Modern Web Stack for the Real-time Web
WebSockets, SPDY, SSL, and persistent connections are in, except that our infrastructure can't support most of these use cases. To enable the modern, real-time web, we need to drag our 'back office' architectures into this century.
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MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases
In this article I digested a number of MapReduce patterns and algorithms to give a systematic view of the different techniques that can be found on the web or scientific articles. Several practical…
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Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering
(This is a modified version of the keynote talk given by Rob Pike at the SPLASH 2012 conference in Tucson, Arizona, on October 25, 2012.)
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Refining Ruby
What does the following code do? If you answered
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On concepts and realities
It’s been really interesting seeing how people have responded to the idea of Light Table over the past week and understandably there have been a lot of questions as the ideas have sunk in (for me too). Many of these are questions about the details of exactly how this or that feature will work and that brings me to…
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Twitter crashes itself with commas
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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Zsh is your friend.
Why you should consider switching from Bash to Zsh