The gaps between these link articles get longer and longer. I’ve just renewed the hosting for this site, so hopefully that will encourage me to write a proper article soon. In the meantime, another collection of the best coding articles from the past month.
Well, technically it’s been two weeks since the last collection of links – but hey, who’s counting?
My plan of posting links weekly hasn’t quite worked out recently – my wife gave birth to a little baby boy, Adam, a month ago, so I’ve been pretty busy. Since he’s sleeping now I figured I might be able to get a quick article in.
Since I’m having trouble producing full-length articles at the moment, I thought I’d try a different track to at least get some value out of my blog hosting costs. I’ll try to post a handful of links that have caught my attention each week.
Of the three textual formats that make up the main pillars of web development (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript), CSS has had the least attention in terms of server-side processing. HTML is obviously well covered, with frameworks such as ASP.NET. JavaScript is starting to be covered with compilers such as Google’s Closure Tools. Until now however [...]
In this article I link to two excellent articles on the subject of hiring coders. They’re not new by any means, but if you haven’t read one or both of them, I thoroughly recommend them. (If you’re familiar with both these writers, then skip this article.)
One thing I was told as a young programmer was to make good use of assertions for checking code. As time goes by however, I can see less and less use for assertions. I’m starting to think they’re pretty useless.
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) has now been released to the public, and while it’s not enough to shift me from Firefox, I’m happy that it offers standards-compliant rendering and a useful “compatibility view”, meaning that web developers can essentially test on IE7 and IE8 without needing virtual machines. Unfortunately, when installed on 64-bit Vista (x64), [...]
A couple of years ago I started doing more and more web development and web design, and less and less desktop development. Here’s a few things I wish I’d known then: 1. Use a Reset Stylesheet Different browsers are free to set default styles for font sizes, margins, and so forth. It’s a silly part [...]
I stumbled across a really nice article the other day: Introduction to Abject-Oriented Programming Judging by the comments posted, only about 50% of people even realize it’s a joke – it’s worth reading through them for a second laugh. Some notable quotes: “Programs that use inheritance are characterized by similar blocks of code with small [...]
