Cameron ‘Porn’ Advisor’s website ‘hacked’ – Threatens/Libels Blogger
I’m perhaps one of the last people you’d expect to see stepping up to defend Paul Staines (aka Guido Fawkes) but you’d be wrong because there are principles that come into play wh…
Google Maps and Waze
To help you outsmart traffic, today we’re excited to announce we’ve closed the acquisition of Waze.
A Comparison of Angular, Backbone, CanJS and Ember
Selecting a JavaScript MVC framework can be hard work. There are so many factors to consider and so many options out there that selecting a framework …
Twenty dollars in an envelope
People are happy to pay for things that are good. Don’t be afraid to charge for your services. - Jason Fried, 37signals
Monitor your Website’s Uptime with Google Docs
Would you like to receive instant email alerts as soon as your website goes down or is inaccessible to users?
I analyzed the chords to 1300 songs for patterns. Part 3 – Interactive Discovery
Last year, we discussed the first results of a long term effort to study the patterns found in the chords of popular songs. The reception that we got was incredibly positive, and we received a ton of great feedback. The two most common questions we’ve gotten from people have been: Our answer: Hooktheory Trends How...
The Ruby on Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 (beta)
News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
Our SQL interview questions
The exact SQL questions we ask developer candidates during interviews, with the schema and the answers. Steal them for your own hiring.
A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist
A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist—2013 Here is an exchange between the Global Editor of the Atlantic Magazine and myself this afternoon attempting to solicit my professional service…
Bootstrap 2.3 Released
It has been far too long, friends. Nearly three months has gone by since we pushed out a new version of Bootstrap, but fret not, for that void comes to a most…
A Tour Inside CloudFlare's Latest Generation Servers
CloudFlare operates at a significant scale, handling more than a trillion requests through our network every month.
Labels in input fields aren’t such a good idea
There’s something that’s been bothering me lately. It seems to be some kind of form interface trend where the labels for text inputs are placed inside the fields themselves.
Goldman Sachs sent a computer scientist to jail over 8MB of open source code
In 2009, a brilliant software engineer Sergey Aleynikov was arrested by the FBI at Newark Liberty International Airport. The allegation? He stole Goldman Sachs source code, about 8 megabytes of it....
Uber Stockholm throw a PR-tantrum when refused unfair advantages
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Sucks to be an old engineer
As if the coming wave of foreign engineers resulting from the inevitable immigration bill isn’t bad enough, I saw this comment left on a Wall Street Journal article: At my recent 40th Stanford reun…