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React 16: A look inside an API-compatible rewrite of our front end UI library
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Sieve of Eratosthenes in Python (2015)
Sieve of Eratosthenes animation Source: Wikipedia[0] One of the things we need to do when finding Perrin Pseudo-Primes is to recognise prime numbers so we can see if the numbers predicted by the Perrin test to be prime, are. So we need to generate primes. For small primes (for some definition of "small") this can be…
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Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7 General Availability
Last Updated: 2017/06/15 Today, we are announcing the general availability of the .NET Framework 4.7. The .NET Framework 4.7 was released as part of Windows 10 Creators Update a month ago. You can now install the .NET Framework 4.7 on other versions of Windows. You can download the .NET Framework 4.7: Web installer…
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JDK 9: Pitfalls for the Unwary
JDK 9 is in the final phases of development, heading towards release on September 21st. The public review consideration ballot for the Java Platform
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Allocation Efficiency in High-Performance Go Services
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Code Smells: Iteration
This is part of a series investigating code that looks suspicious ("code smells"), and exploring possible alternatives. Code Smells: Null Code Smells: Deeply Nested Code Code Smells: Iteration
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Elevate your C programming skills by exploring the SQLite codebase
Articles about C/C++ code quality, software architecture, static analysis and CppDepend.
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Selenium IDE alternatives for UI regression testing
If you’re searching for good Selenium IDE alternatives, you’re not alone. People discuss record-playback IDEs all the time, on most testing automation forums that I’ve seen. And, in fact, there are several modern cloud-based platforms that seem to record-playback right.
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Compile-Time Evaluation in the Zig System Programming Language
Zig places importance on the concept of whether an expression is known at compile-time. There are a few different places this concept is used, and these building blocks are used to keep the language small, readable, and powerful.
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The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (2015)
The hardest program I’ve ever written, once you strip out the whitespace, is 3,835 lines long. That handful of code took me almost a year to write. Granted, that doesn’t take into account the code that didn’t make it. The commit history shows that I deleted 20,704 lines of code over that time. Every surviving line has…
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Qt Quick WebGL Streaming
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Improvements to searching for special characters in programming languages
Now for queries containing sequences of 2-3 special characters such as [== vs ===] and [+=], Google will return results on the meaning of these sequences in programming …
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An empirical study on the correctness of formally verified distributed systems
An empirical study on the correctness of formally verified distributed systems Fonseca et al., EuroSys’17 “Is your distributed system bug free?” “I formally verified it!R…
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Typed nils in Go 2
This is an experience report about a gotcha in Go that catches every Go programmer at least once. The following program is extracted from a larger version that caused my co-workers to lose several hours today.
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Releases for XFCE
So it’s not that I’ve been quiet and lazy – I was actually busy preparing some releases and hacking on stuff. So here’s an update on what’s been going on and what’s to come.
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Mapping Strings in C++
Mapping strings to things makes sense. You take a meaningful string and you assign it a value. As with most things we do in programming there are many pitfalls to approaching a problem. So, lets explore some of them!
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On Melissa O’Neill’s PCG random number generator
Computers often need random numbers. Most times, random numbers are not actually random... in the sense that they are the output of a mathematical function that is purely deterministic. And it is not even entirely clear what "really random" would mean. It is not clear that we live in a randomized universe... it seems…
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Chrome 60 Beta
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, Mac, and Wi...