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Google releases its own Javascript Lint tool
When collaborating with lots of engineers as we do here at Google, it’s important to keep a consistent coding style. To this end, we recent...
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 514 posts.
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Doing It Wrong
Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It’s time to stop the madness.
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Comparing Python frameworks: A simple webapp in Flask, web.py, bottle, juno ...
This is a set of apps which creates the same application in various Python web micro-frameworks.
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Common Mistakes as Python Web Developer
A short list of common mistakes in Python web applications in terms of security and architecture.
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Clojure 1.2 released
I'm pleased to announce today the release of Clojure 1.2. http://clojure.org/downloads For maven/leiningen users, your settings to get the b...
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My Common Git Workflow
A recent post [http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/still-hatin-on-git-now-with-added-actual-reasons/] that was highly ranked on Hacker News complained about common git workflows causing him serious pain. While I won't get into the merit of his user experience complaints, I do
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Still hatin' on git: now with added Actual Reasons
Monday’s little diatribe on git seemed to stir up quite a bit of strong opinion, both agreeing with me and disagreeing. As is often the case, they two camps seem to be split about 50-50, whi…
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Is it hard to become an Android developer?
My last post (Android Developer Income Report) caused a lot of questions about how to jump into Android apps development. It is very surprising for me as earnings I have presented are not even clos…
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Xcode UI Improvements
Xcode is a fantastic development environment for developing Mac, iPhone, and iPad applications. But it has some areas for improvement. In this post, I’ll explore some improvements to how documentation and autocompletion is integrated into the development workflow and how Xcode could provide specialized interfaces for…
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Amazing feats of Clang Error Recovery
In addition to parsing and generating machine code for your source files when valid, a compiler frontend's job is also to detect invalid code and give you a hint that explains what is wrong so you can fix the problem.
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Lambda-style anonymous functions for C++ in less than 500 lines of code
I prefer functional languages like Scheme, Scala or Haskell over C++ for most tasks. So, when I'm forced to program in C++, I write functional C++.
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Modern Perl, the book, is Available.
After countless commits, the generosity of dozens of proofreaders, and far too long proofreading the index, Modern Perl: the book is available! You can buy a lovely print version from any well-stocked online vendor (and you're more than welcome to...
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Don’t Hash Secrets
Building secure systems is difficult. It would be nice if we had a bunch of well-designed crypto building blocks that we could assemble in all sorts of ways and be certain that they would, no matte…
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How to write cross-platform code
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