Let me share with you some links that I found interesting in the past few weeks. These should keep the most diligent person busy for a few hours.
Talbot Crowell's Introduction to F# 3.0 slides from Boston CodeCamp.
Bertrand Meyer (The creator of Eiffel, father of good taste in engineering practices) writes Fundamental Duality of Software Engineering: on the specifications and tests. This is one of those essays where every idea is beautifully presented. A must read.
Good article on weakly ordered CPUs.
MonkeySpace slide deck on MonoGame.
David Siegel shares a cool C# trick, switch expressions.
Oak: Frictionless development for ASP.NET MVC.
Simon Peyton Jones on video talks about Haskell, past, present and future. A very tasty introductory talk to the language. David Siegel says about this:
Simon Peyton-Jones is the most eloquent speaker on programming languages. Brilliant, funny, humble, adorable.
Rob Pike's talk on Concurrency is not Parallelism. Rob is one of the crisper minds in software development, anything he writes, you must read, everything he says, you must listen to.
Answering the question of what is the fastest way to access properties dynamically: DynamicMethod LINQ expressions, MethodInfo. Discussion with Eric Maupin.
OpenGL ES Quick Reference Card, plus a good companion: Apple's Programming Guide.
SparkleShare, the open source file syncing service running on top of Git released their feature-complete product. They are preparing for their 1.0 release. SparkleShare runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. Check out their Release Notes.
Experts warn that Canonical might likely distribute a patched version that modifies your documents and spreadhseets to include ads and Amazon referal links.
Pheed a twitter competitor with a twist.
Better debugging tools for Google Native Client.
Touch Draw comes to MacOS, great vector drawing application for OSX. Good companion to Pixelmator and great for maintaining iOS artwork. It has great support for structured graphics and for importing/exporting Visio files.
MonoGame 3D on the Raspberry Pi video.
Fruit Rocks a fun little game for iOS.
@Redth, the one man factory of cool hacks has released:
Coding on Passbook: Lessons Learned.
Phil Haack blogs about MonkeySpace
Patrick McKenzie writes Designing First Run Experiences to Delight Users.
Kicking the Twitter habit.
Twitter Q&A with TJ Fixman, writer for Insomniac Games.
Debunking the myths of budget deficits: Children and Grandchildren do not pay for budget deficits, they get interest on the bonds.
Live updates on HoneyPots setup by the HoneyNet Project.
Updated Programming F# 3.0, 2nd Edition is out. By Chris Smith, a delightful book on F# has been updated to cover the new and amazing type providers in F#.
ServiceStack now has 113 contributors.
From Apple Insider: Google may settle mobile FRAND patent antitrust claim.
The Salt Lake City Tribune editorial board endorses Obama over Romney:
In considering which candidate to endorse, The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board had hoped that Romney would exhibit the same talents for organization, pragmatic problem solving and inspired leadership that he displayed here more than a decade ago. Instead, we have watched him morph into a friend of the far right, then tack toward the center with breathtaking aplomb. Through a pair of presidential debates, Romney’s domestic agenda remains bereft of detail and worthy of mistrust.Therefore, our endorsement must go to the incumbent, a competent leader who, against tough odds, has guided the country through catastrophe and set a course that, while rocky, is pointing toward a brighter day. The president has earned a second term. Romney, in whatever guise, does not deserve a first.
From Blue States are from Scandinavia, Red States are from Guatemala the author looks at the differences in policies in red vs blue states, and concludes:
Advocates for the red-state approach to government invoke lofty principles: By resisting federal programs and defying federal laws, they say, they are standing up for liberty. These were the same arguments that the original red-staters made in the 1800s, before the Civil War, and in the 1900s, before the Civil Rights movement. Now, as then, the liberty the red states seek is the liberty to let a whole class of citizens suffer. That’s not something the rest of us should tolerate. This country has room for different approaches to policy. It doesn’t have room for different standards of human decency.
Esquire's take on the 2nd Presidential Debate.
Dave Winer wrote Readings from News Execs:
There was an interesting juxtaposition. Rupert Murdoch giving a mercifully short speech saying the biggest mistake someone in the news business could make is thinking the reader is stupid. He could easily have been introducing the next speaker, Bill Keller of the NY Times, who clearly thinks almost everyone who doesn't work at the NY Times is stupid.
What do you know, turns out that Bill Moyers is not funded by the government nor does he get tax money, like many Republicans like people to believe. The correction is here.
"Non-Alcoholic Sparkling Beverage" - Whole Foods' $7.99 name for "bottle of soda".
Problem with most religious people is that their faith tells them to play excellently in game of life, but they want to be the referees.
Hylke Bons on software engineering:
"on average, there's one bug for every 100 lines of code" this is why i put everything on one line
If government doesn't create jobs, isn't Romney admitting that his campaign is pointless?
OH "It is a very solid grey area" #sc34 #ooxml
"I don't care how many thousand words your blog post is, the words 'SYMBIAN WAS WINNING' mean you're too high on meth to listen too.
Jeremy Scahill on war monger Max Boots asks the questions
Do they make a Kevlar pencil protector? Asking for a think tanker.Max Boot earned a Purple Heart (shaped ink stain on his shirt) during the Weekly Standard War in 1994.
"W3C teams with Apple, Google, Mozilla on WebPlatform"... or we could all just sponsor a tag on StackOverflow.
Most programmers who claim that types "get in the way" had a sucky experience with Java 12 years ago, tried Python, then threw the baby out.
How Hollywood Studios employ creative accounting to avoid sharing the profits with the participants. If you were looking at ways to scam your employees and partners, look no further.
Startvation in Gaza: State forced to release 'red lines' document for food consumption.
Dirty tricks and disturbing trends: Billionaire warn employees that if Obama is reelected, they will be facing layoffs.
Israeli Children Deported to South Sudan Succumb to Malaria:
Here we are today, three months later, and within the last month alone, these two parents lost two children, and the two remaining ones are sick as well. Sunday is already in hospital with malaria, in serious condition, and Mahm is sick at home. “I’ve only two children left,” Michael told me today over the phone. The family doesn’t have money to properly treat their remaining children. The hospitals are at full capacity and more people leave them in shrouds than on their own two feet. I ask you, beg of you to help me scream the story of these children and their fate, dictated by the heartless, immoral Israeli government.
When Suicide is Cheaper the horrifying tales of Americans that can not afford health care.
Paul Ryan is not that different from Todd Akin, when it comes to women rights.
A Windows 8 critique: someone is not very happy with it.
On "meritocracy": what is wrong with it.
Fascinating read on the fast moving space of companies: Intimate Portrait of Innovation, Risk and Failure Through Hipstamatic's Lens.
Kathy Sierra discusses sexism in the tech world. How she changed her mind about it, and the story that prevented her from seeing it.
Response @antirez's sexist piece.
Chrystia Freeland's The Self Destruction of the 1% percent is a great article, which touches on the points of her book of Plutocrats
Sony's Steep Learning Process a look at the changing game with a focus on Sony's challenges.
One Minute Animated Primers on Major Theories on Religion.
Cat fact and Gif provides Cat facts with a gif that goes with it. The ultimate resource of cat facts and gifs.
Posted on 21 Oct 2012
