Category: Science
inessential.com – Fantastical and language detection
That is practically the definition of great software, causing your users delight in the everyday workings.
wingolog – Javascript eval Considered Crazy
No matter how crazy and unsafe you consider eval this is just going to scare you a little more.
Gigantt Blog – The GitHub Job Interview
This sounds like a really solid way to do a job interview.
kickingbear – Learn to X
There’s a problem amongst programmers it’s the classic when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail. Programming/Coding is our hammer, perhaps a really advanced hammer but still just a hammer.
The Kernel – The golden age of the developer
I’m trying to do more of this moving forward even in little bits and pieces I think help me stand out as a developer and it’s good to help the community which provides the basis of so much of my daily income (CakePHP, jQuery, etc).
John Kary – git 1.7.8 changes for the everyday developer
Some small but useful changes to Git, git grep now being able to search untracked files in particular is useful.
BBC News – Cambridge University puts Isaac Newton papers online
One of the geniuses of all time.
Chrome Developer Tools
Paul Irish shows off some of the fanciness that Google has added to Chrome for developers.
Ars Technica – Google Earth, other mobile apps leave door open for scripting attacks
Oops, just because it doesn’t look like a browser doesn’t mean it doesn’t suffer the same security holes.
Shifty Jelly’s blog of mystery – You Guys Are Millionaires Right?
Pretty much exactly my answer when someone asks about pirating software.