The Minority Report

Here’s the setup: Since I’m about a month away from being done with University and entering the programmer workforce, I’ve taken to asking my classmates what type of starting salaries they’re getting at their first jobs. The Programmer Salary Taboo and…..the money shot: To put my money where my mouth is, here’s some information on [...]

So how does one quickly turn their HTML application into a MySpace application without rewriting a ton of code? Enter Microsoft Silverlight and the RadHtmlPlaceHolder control from Telerik. MySpace supports Silverlight applications, just like Flash. And with an install base somewhere around 70% now, I decided Silverlight is absolutely a viable option for my app. [...]

I don’t know if you have tried to parse an URL yet for some sort of application. You might think it’s a relatively trivial excersize in string parsing. However…take a look at this: <scheme>://<username>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<path>;<parameters>?<query>#<fragment> Here is a tutorial on the structure of an URL and all the characters and parameters that go into constructing one. [...]

Note the cool marble inlay on the floor… On the last day, they gathered for a group photo. They were videogame programmers, artists, level builders, artificial-intelligence experts. Their team was — finally — giving up, declaring defeat, and disbanding. So they headed down to the lobby of their building in Garland, Texas, to smile for [...]

If you read this blog, hahahahahahahahaaha, anyway, if you read this blog then you know we are fans of the fine work that 5ubliminal does over on his site, blog.5ubliminal.com. He is introducing a new site shortly called Moolah scripts and it’s geared towards the discriminating SEO coder. His shit is tight and well thought [...]

We are proud to announce the second major release of Core, Jane Street’s alternative to OCaml’s standard library. This release also includes Core_extended, which adds new functionality such as subcommand style command line argument handling, a procfs interface, readline support, and more. Core_extended is used heavily at Jane Street, but not systematically code reviewed in [...]

Dying to play Donkey Kong in your web browswer? Contra? Well now with a little javascript and Chromes blazing fast performance you can. Check out this story! A few months ago, I stumbled across Matt Westcott’s excellent JSSpeccy. I had seen some pretty imaginative canvas creations, but Javascript emulators? What a perfect idea for a [...]

How NOT to design a dialog box… “Our company recently bought some really expensive Project Management software,” Stephen notes, “it included a lot of options.” The Generic Package – The Daily WTF

I pay attention to anything written by Valerie Aurora, who is not only hot, but a world class Linux filesystem developer. She’s put together “A short history of btrfs” the Linux file system that Linus Torvalds is using on one of his laptops. Check it out: In this article, we’ll take a behind-the-scenes look at [...]

What can a sampling of 100 applications and 8-million consumers on four platforms tell us about the smartphone application market? A Flurry Of Market Data I don’t want to draw any conclusions for you but basically, why develop for any other handheld platform but the iPhone?

Guest author Brian Stormon from Stormy Productions is guest blogging on Mobile Orchard with this information on how to keep your iPhone app from being rejected from the Apple AppStore. It’s a pretty insightful read and while I hit the titles, I suggest you visit and read up. I’ve been developing apps for the iPhone [...]

Somehow I don’t think it’s fair that this shitty blog is number one for iPhone game development on Google. So I found what looks to be a very comprehensive iPhone game development tutorial and as a bonus, if there is enough interest the blogger will create more tutorials. Looks like a pretty sweet deal to [...]

I think this clip is the money shot but if you program, I think you will find this article extremely interesting. It has occurred to me that the reason for this could simply be that programming is so damned hard it can’t be automated. As a result, there’s no way to produce the gradations of [...]

While I was investigating the new programming language Newspeak the other day, I ended up “trapped” on a website dedicated to the book 1984. Now if you have never read 1984 then you are a complete retard and need to go get it from Amazon and read it today (its where I stole the title [...]

It’s Friday! and you know what that means! I don’t either but here is another new programming language that I’ve discovered. It’s called Newspeak. Newspeak is a new programming language in the tradition of Self and Smalltalk. Newspeak is highly dynamic and reflective  – but designed to support modularity and security. It supports both object-oriented and [...]