lun. 15 décembre 2014
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Simple JavaScript Inheritance by John Resig, 2008.
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I’ve been doing a lot of work, lately, with JavaScript inheritance – namely for my work-in-progress JavaScript book – and in doing so have examined a number of different JavaScript classical-inheritance-simulating techniques. Out of all the ones that I …
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lun. 24 novembre 2014
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How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math by Barbara Oakley, 2014.
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Barbara Oakley describes here how she is learning. She explains how she learned the Russian language in school and switched to engineering. And then she explains her method to learn maths the same way …
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sam. 22 novembre 2014
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I describe here how I did install Mopidy under Arch Linux on a Raspberry Pi. To do that, I did use :
- a Raspberry Pi model B+
- a power Adaptator from Aukru (AP12003UV)
- speakers that you can plug on a 3.5mm jack
- a microSD card (32Gb)
![My Raspberry Pi](images/raspberry_pi.jpg)
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ven. 21 novembre 2014
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How Browsers Work: Behind the scenes of modern web browsers by Tali Garsiel and Paul Irish, 2011.
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This comprehensive primer on the internal operations of WebKit and Gecko is the result of much research done by Israeli developer Tali Garsiel. Over a few years, she …
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sam. 07 juin 2014
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Your Brain at Work by David Rock, 2009.
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In his new book Your Brain at Work, coach David Rock depicts the story of two people over one day at the office, and what’s happening in their brains that makes it so hard to focus …
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sam. 24 mai 2014
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FeatureBranch by Martin Fowler, 2009.
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With the rise of Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) such as git and Mercurial, I‘ve seen more conversations about strategies for branching and merging and how they fit in with Continuous Integration (CI). There’s a bit of confusion here …
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ven. 23 mai 2014
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The Myth of the Genius Programmer by Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman, 2009.
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A pervasive elitism hovers in the background of collaborative software development: everyone secretly wants to be seen as a genius. In this talk, we discuss how to avoid this trap and gracefully …
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jeu. 15 mai 2014
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A Successful Git Branching Model by Vincent Driessen, 2010.
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In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. I …
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dim. 13 avril 2014
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The Cost of Going it Alone by Dave Neary, 2011.
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When working with community software, which costs more, working a private branch, based off a stable version, or developing the features upstream? Many companies choose to take stable software and adapt it to their needs, rather than building …
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sam. 12 avril 2014
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Programming Style & Your Brain by Douglas Crockford, 2011.
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In this keynote talk from YUIConf 2011, Yahoo! JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford drops some science to explain why code style is important in programming – particularly in JavaScript – and how tools like JSLint can help …
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