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LearnProgramming via github

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 14, 2012

LearnProgramming organisation LearnProgramming is an organization that grew out of the subreddit /r/learnprogramming, our aim is to provide a set of ‘hackable’ projects for beginners to contribute to in a open, encouraging atmosphere. In many cases, it seems, new programmers feel daunted by the task of contributing to open source, they don’t know what to [...]

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Add MacRuby/RubyMotion syntax to Apple’s Objective-C Cocoa docs

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 14, 2012

joakimk via github macruby-docs.user.js – A userscript that adds MacRuby/RubyMotion syntax to Apple’s Objective-C/Cocoa docs. When there’s a deficiency in your work flow, create a solution.

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Our Development Process: 50 Months of Evolution

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 12, 2012

Michael Dubakov, TargetProcess Founder Our company is almost 6 years old now. It was founded on agile principles and grew up on them. We’ve used Extreme Programming from day 1, immixed some Scrum ideas later on and switched to Kanban in the end. Here below I’ve tried to review our process changes for the last [...]

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JavaScript Study Guide

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 11, 2012

Chris Shiflett A few months ago, I wrote about learning JavaScript. I’m already pretty comfortable with the language, and although I did break the chain, I’m happy to report that I’m still at it. Never stop learning, right? Nice list. Tweet

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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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On Why I Am Not Buying RubyMotion

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 10, 2012

I think Cesare Rocchis has some good points Whenever I see a third party tool I ask myself: how quickly it will be updated to the last SDK version? Say Apple releases a iOS6 today. Will an aligned version of the tool be ready today? Being behind the latest sucks if you’re pushing to keep [...]

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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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