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Fact and folklore in software engineering

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 11, 2012

Laurent Bossavit, Institut Agile The verdict seems clear: this supposed “scientific” observation on individual programmer productivity variations only deserves the name of folklore, unsubstantiated bits of opinion which are transmitted and kept alive for reasons more cultural than rational. I am most emphatically not claiming that there aren’t variations in productivity of that order: I [...]

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ECMA Language Specification

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 9, 2012

ECMAScript Language Specification, 5.1, June 2011, PDF This Ecma Standard is based on several originating technologies, the most well known being JavaScript (Netscape) and JScript (Microsoft). The language was invented by Brendan Eich at Netscape and first appeared in that company‘s Navigator 2.0 browser. It has appeared in all subsequent browsers from Netscape and in [...]

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OrmHate

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 9, 2012

Martin Fowler So ORMs help us deal with a very real problem for most enterprise applications. It’s true they are often misused, and sometimes the underlying problem can be avoided. They aren’t pretty tools, but then the problem they tackle isn’t exactly cuddly either. I think they deserve a little more respect and a lot [...]

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Iterate through objects properties with jQuery

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 7, 2012

Tim Büthe $.each( { name: “John”, lang: “JS” }, function(i, n){ alert( “Name: ” + i + “, Value: ” + n ); }); I didn’t realise that you could treat an object just like an array with $.each(). The $.each() function is not the same as $(selector).each(), which is used to iterate, exclusively, over [...]

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This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 7, 2012

Jeff Atwood Getting the details right is the difference between something that delights, and something customers tolerate. The copy cats have the core features. But they always feel lacking. I do think it’s because they concentrate on general and forget about these nuances which makes the original the darling in customers’ eyes. Tweet

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Complication is What Happens When You Try to Solve a Problem You Don’t Understand

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 7, 2012

andy on the eternal struggle for a developer Code should be simple. Code should be butt simple. Code should be so simple that there’s no way it can be misunderstood. Good code has no nooks. Good code has no crannies. Good code is a round room with no corners for bugs to hide in. We [...]

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NodObjC

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 7, 2012

NodObjC NodObjC is the bridge between NodeJS and the Objective-C runtime and frameworks, making it possible to write native Cocoa applications (both GUI and command-line) using 100% NodeJS. Applications are written entirely in JavaScript and interpreted at runtime. Tweet

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