Category: Programming
Mozilla Popcorn – Making video work like the web
The concept is basically at points in the video you can load in data from the web about the video or what’s shown in the video from Twitter, Wikipedia, Google Maps and other stuff.
GMane.Comp.Version-Control.Git – Linus Torvalds on C and C++
Programmers are an opinionated bunch.
ExtremeTech – Mozilla puts Firefox on a memory diet
I still use Firefox as my main browser but this is a needed improvement.
DARPA Shredder Challenge
Neat challenge, it would be cool to work on this problem but image analysis is so far out of my area of expertise.
Panic Blog – Panic State of the Union ’11
Coda is the app I probably spend the most time in outside of the browser, can’t wait for version 2.
Seldo.Com Blog – PHP needs to die. What will replace it?
I use PHP for my day job every day and will probably still be using it years from now, but there are times I wish the language itself was more modern.
Eric’s Archived Thoughts – Searching For Mark Pilgrim
It would be quite depressing not to have those resources available, Dive Into HTML5 was "the" online resource for HTML5.
Zach Holman – Scaling GitHub’s Employees
Pretty cool read, the focus is on automating tasks so new employees don’t need to know a lot to get started and working, having teams that focus primarily on one single part of GitHub and reducing complexity.
Vivek Haldar – Size is the best predictor of code quality
Essentially length of code tied with code metrics becomes a reasonable predictor of bugs.
Mark Story – Using bcrypt for passwords in CakePHP
Awesome, I tried doing this in CakePHP 1.3 a few weeks ago but couldn’t get it to work right all the time.