Category: Science
Tim Bray – Dennis Ritchie
One of the giants of Computer Science dies.
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.
APOD – Flying over Planet Earth
Wow!
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.
GitHub – gimenete/iOS-boilerplate
This looks impressive for anyone building an iOS app.
GitHub – davatron5000/FitVids.js
Pretty cool, not something I personally would need often but still useful.
Lea Verou – Pure CSS3 typing animation with steps()
Pretty nifty trick.