This morning, on a conference mailing list, I made some disparaging remarks about Node.js (the title of this post, in fact). A couple people asked me why I felt that way. Rather than respond individually, I'll just list my reasons here — codeslinger.posterous.com
I’m thinking the iPad Mini will be not just thinner and lighter than the iPad-as-we-know-it, but remarkably thinner and lighter than its competitors in the small tablet market.
Bart van Zon, software developer
I wrote the other day about me upgrading my system in order to be able to run the Preview Release of GIMP 2.8 , I have it up and working, r...
Web performance monitoring is the process of tracking and analyzing the speed, uptime, and overall performance of a website to ensure an optimal user experience.
Available as a feature of Stripe.js, Stripe Elements is a set of prebuilt UI components for building your web checkout flow.
[ Update, Feb 2014. Plaque placed outside room where web was invented.] Success (of sorts)! ARS Electronica have given an award to Tim Berners-Lee and CERN for the invention of the web. They had he…
My first job at Microsoft was providing developer support for the early Windows SDKs. To do my job well, I spent hours studying the Windows SDK documentation, the Windows source code, and writing sample applications. I then spent hours poring over customers’ (such as Lotus, WordPerfect, and Computer Associates) code…
One's sentiment toward JavaScript flips between elegance and disgust without transiting intermediate states.
Apple quietly fixed the apps affected by corrupt App Store binaries in an interesting way.
