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Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:34PM from the not-my-types dept. Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js and Deno, gave a new interview this week to the IT outsourcing company Evrone: Evrone: You have hands-on experience with lots of programming languages: C, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript. Which one do you enjoy the most to work with? Ryan: I have the most fun writing Rust these d

Posted by msmash on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:45PM from the PSA dept. Mac developers are reporting that apps made using Electron (which is a framework that allows companies to ship web apps in a native app wrapper) are now being rejected by the automated Mac App Store review process. From a report: The apps in question are getting flagged because of their usage of private API calls. These API c

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday January 21, 2018 @03:34PM from the art-of-having-a-happy-birthday dept. An anonymous reader writes: When 24-year-old Donald Knuth began writing The Art of Computer Programming, he had no idea that he'd still be working on it 56 years later. This month he also celebrated his 80th birthday in Sweden with the world premier of Knuth's Fantasia Apocalyptica, a multimedia

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 30, 2015 @02:27PM from the leaving-a-legacy dept. Esther Schindler writes: Yale is reporting that Paul Hudak, professor of computer science and master of Saybrook College, died last night after a long battle with leukemia. He was known as one of the principal designers of Haskell, which you probably don't need to be told he defined as "a purely functional progra

An anonymous reader writes "I have been working on an HTML5 app for Panasonic VIERA TVs, specifically a client for the Plex Media Server. After paying $129 for the developer program, version 1.0 was submitted for inclusion in their VIERA Connect marketplace several weeks ago. After a few requested tweaks, they inquired about how the client communicated with the Plex Server. As many/most web develo

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 26, 2013 @11:55AM from the listen-up dept. Last week you had a chance to ask Guido van Rossum, Python's BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life), about all things Python and his move to Dropbox. Guido wasted no time answering your questions and you'll find his responses below. From Google to Dropbox by nurhussein Hi, What prompted the move from Google to Dropbox? Wh

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 24, 2013 @05:08AM from the protect-ya-neck dept. CowboyRobot writes "Local storage is a big change from HTML of the past, where browsers could only use cookies to store small bits of information, such as session tokens, for managing identity. HTML5 changes this with sessionStorage, localStorage, and client-side databases to allow developers to store vast amounts

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 16, 2013 @01:31AM from the what-you-want-everything dept. New submitter karijes writes "Evil is a new Emacs major mode intended to implement full Vim emulation for Emacs editor, and it's reached its first stable release. Evil implements many Vim features and has support for plugins, so there is port for rails.vim, NERDCommenter and mapleader among others. You

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 18, 2012 @01:26AM from the seems-like-a-reasonable-suspicion dept. mpol writes "Sergei from MariaDB speculated on some changes within MySQL 5.5.27. It seems new testcases aren't included with MySQL any more, which leaves developers depending on it in the cold. 'Does this mean that test cases are no longer open source? Oracle did not reply to my question. But in

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 13, 2011 @07:12PM from the hey-those-are-good-cat-names dept. derGoldstein writes "Project PyPy is an alternative implementation of Python, with the main advantage being a Just In Time (JIT) compiler which speeds up your code considerably. They've announced the first public release of jitviewer, which is a visualization tool that helps you understand how your c

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 02, 2010 @11:34AM from the gaining-understanding-bit-by-bit dept. -brazil- writes "Every programmer forum gets a steady stream of novice questions about numbers not 'adding up.' Apart from repetitive explanations, SOP is to link to a paper by David Goldberg which, while very thorough, is not very accessible for novices. To alleviate this, I wrote The Floating-Poin

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 09, 2010 @05:20PM from the at-least-it's-consistent dept. Trailrunner7 writes "There is a serious vulnerability in Java that makes all current browsers vulnerable to simple Web-based attacks that could lead to a complete compromise of the affected system. Two separate researchers released information on the vulnerability on Friday, saying that it has been presen

I think a good text for a course on conceptual models for software is Design Patterns by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides. When I first came upon this book it really opened my eyes. Now I can hardly imagine trying to be a software developer without the perspective offered in these pages. Of course those GoF patterns can make life hell for the maintenance developer or app framework user, when pe

John Resig is reporting on his blog that a recent trip to Tokyo opened up some very interesting JavaScript projects to him that haven't met with widespread popularity outside of Japan yet. "One project, in particular, really caught my eye. It's called Orto and is an implementation of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in JavaScript. This means that you can take an existing Java application, compile it

Comments Filter: All Insightful Informative Interesting Funny Thanks for all the comments on this. We are listening attentively. Let me clarify some facts: * The business decision on this was made by MySQL AB (by me as the then CEO) prior to the acquisition by Sun, so this has nothing to do with Sun. On the contrary, Sun is more likely to influence this decision the other way. * It is not a quesit

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @08:37PM from the closing-up dept. An anonymous reader writes "From the MySQL User's Conference, Sun has announced, and former CEO Marten Mickos has confirmed, that Sun will be close sourcing sections of the MySQL code base. Sun will begin with close sourcing the backup solutions to MySQL, and will continue with more advanced features. With Oracle ow

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday December 01, 2007 @12:28PM from the this-isn't-the-third-rail-is-it dept. Bogtha writes "Long-time users of Perl for their public websites, and having successfully used Ruby on Rails for internal websites, the BBC have fused the two by creating a 'Perl on Rails' that has the advantages of rapid development that Rails brings, while performing well enough to be used fo

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 01, 2007 @05:01PM from the coming-of-age dept. penguinblotter writes in a journal article: "Soon, Walter Bright is scheduled to release version 1.0 of the D Programming Language. D is a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. Spe

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 27, 2006 @12:17PM from the to-the-future-infinity-boy dept. An anonymous reader writes "As with its past, the future of HTML will be varied, some might say messy, but I believe XHTML 2.0 will ultimately receive widespread acceptance and adoption. A big move in this direction will be in Embedded devices such as phones and digital TVs, which will have no need to supp