Links for 20-May
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Solving FizzBuzz using compiler error messages -- or another example of how to use C++ templates as a functional programming tool
Redefining Professionalism for Software Engineers
JavaScript hijacking -- Interesting post and comment thread on poor idioms to use within AJAX/JSON type programming
Sandboxing JavaScript using <iframe> -- a technique to mitigate injection attacks
Hard-core customisation of Visual Studio 2005 -- here used to suppress the auto-generation of #region tags around automatic interface generation (which are a nice idea in theory, but soon turn into undocumentation in practice). Thinking of which
Avoiding Undocumentation -- an oldie, but a goodie
loglibrarian: How I Learn New Things These Days
Don't have a COW, man? What Haskell teaches us about writing Enterprise-scale software -- It's surprising what light a functional language, with immutable values can cast on a problem
Optimizations That Aren't (In a Multithreaded World) -- however... (Damned if you do, damned if you don't...)
The "Yes is No" problem -- with dynamic languages, what you see in the source may not be what you get at run-time
Breaking 104 bit WEP in less than 60 seconds
CSSVista -- Live editing tool for CSS in Firefox and IE simultaneously
Concurrency Crisis -- Is vanilla OO the right tool for handling inherently concurrent systems?
Less programming -- more skill?
Ruby Threads considered worthless -- mainly because they are interpreter-level (aka green) thread, not ones known to the OS (though that does not apply to JRuby which uses the Java threading library instead.
JavaScript framework for Google Maps
More on HTTP.SYS and its security implications -- a must-read
Typography -- compose to a vertical rhythm
The Language of Accessibility -- build it in, don't build barriers
Prioritizing Web Usabilty -- Jakob Nielsen's latest book
Ruby code that will swallow your soul -- some of the tricks that that Evil Ruby (Extends Ruby's semantics by accessing its internals from pure Ruby code) can enable
Pattern matching with Ruby -- no, not regexes; but something much more fun
SoftCoding -- A dailty WTF essay piece that spots a problem but doesn't quite draw the lesson from it -- the lesson being that Abstraction is somewhat like Optimization.
What if web apps worked like pin-ball machines? -- an interesting view of web idiom
Markup as Craft -- aiming for maintainability and usability
Guidelines for creating better mark-up
InfoCards and Identity Stability
Agile Project management and Competitive Advantage
What does Barbara Liskov have to say about Equality in Java? -- same reasoning applies in C#
Architect's notes for Varnish -- a different look at storage paradigms
Token Description Service for Cardspace
Walking, talking and quacking in Java -- Duck typing and interfaces
Mount ISO as CD with a MSFT tool -- self extracting .zip with readme.
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