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Do not upgrade to PHP 5.3.7 due to a bug in crypt()
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
CoffeeScript One Liners
Main di MAMIBET88 dengan transaksi instan dan sistem cepat. Nikmati game online terpercaya dengan akses mudah dan layanan responsif. Daftar sekarang!
Making a Local Web Server Public with Localtunnel
Twilio posts cloud communications trends, customer stories, and tips for building scalable voice and SMS applications with Twilio's APIs.
Developing Multiplayer HTML5 Games with Node.js
Introducing osmus, a multiplayer HTML5 game written with web sockets, canvas and a game engine that runs shared code on the client and server.
In defence of Objective-C
Chris Hulbert, Splinter Software, is a contracting iOS developer based in Australia.
Quake's Fast Inverse Square Root
I'm no graphics expert, but appreciate why square roots are useful. The Pythagorean theorem computes distance between points, and dividing by distance helps…
Actual JavaScript Engine Performance
JSMeter: Measuring JavaScript Behavior in the Wild showed that benchmarks are not representative of the behavior of real web applications. But lacking credible benchmarks, engine developers are tuning to what they have. The danger is that the performance of the engines will be tuned to non-representative benchmarks…
Announcing my first e-book "Awk One-Liners Explained"
Buy it now for just $19.99 Hello everyone! I have awesome news – I just wrote my first e-book ever. It's called Awk One-Liners Explained and it's based on the Awk One-Liners Explained article series that I wrote here on my blog a few years ago and that has been read over 2,000,000 times. I went through all the...
Require.js + Backbone.js = Robust Modular Application Development
Learn how Backbone.js applications are organized using modules, namespaces, reusable Views, and scalable frontend architecture patterns.
Crit-bit Trees: the best way to store sets
A crit-bit tree can be used as a high-speed associative array. For example, an array mapping 54 to 1, 19 to 2, 99 to 3, 85 to 4, and 88 to 5 can be stored as a crit-bit tree containing 54=1, 19=2, 99=3, 85=4, and 88=5. The smallest string in the crit-bit tree larger than 85= is 85=4.
WebGL + Node.js + WebSockets = A Web Technology Perfect Storm
Tech Nerd. CEO.
Building StatHat with Go
How StatHat uses Go, and why they chose it.
Go At Heroku (Doozer)
Two Heroku system engineers discuss their experiences using Go.
C Language Resources
Top 10 C Language resources that will turn you into a better programmer
“Let's settle this in a Ruby programming contest”
Introducing Codebrawl, a Ruby and open source programming contest website