The Insider News

Pixelstech.net[^]:

A hacker can put a lot of code together in a hurry but if a change is needed the code has to be completely rewritten. A programmer may take a little longer but if changes are needed they are more quickly and easily installed without the need for a complete rewrite. But is that the only way to express the difference? Or is there a real difference at all?

Armed and Dangerous[^]:

Hacking on the C code of giflib after an absence of nearly two decades has been an interesting experience, a little like doing an archeological dig. And not one that could readily be had elsewhere; nowhere other than under Unix is code that old still genuinely useful under any but carefully sandboxed conditions.

Windows Store for developers[^]:

When it comes to building a Metro style app for business users, the first thing you should consider—whether you are a developer or an IT admin—is how you'll deploy the app. The information you find here should be helpful to you, whether you're a developer writing an app targeting business users, or an IT admin responsible for deploying the app throughout your company.

iFixit[^]:

The iPad’s light, sleek, simple construction belies its complex origins. There’s a lot of stuff in the iPad: aluminum and glass, of course, but also other heavy metals and toxic chemicals. And manufacturing each 1.44-pound iPad results in over 285 times its own weight in greenhouse gas emissions. The manufacturing of and material used in the iPad are two reasons why the iPad must be made in China—and not just in the ways you’d expect.

Popular Mechanics[^]:

Your phone's or computers' battery drains over the course of a day, but its effectiveness also wears down over the course of weeks, months, and years. We explain why, and the best way to do long-term battery storage.

The Setup[^]:

Best known for authoring one of the very first web browsers, Lynx, and being a founding engineer at Netscape. I helped create many of the foundational technologies for the web: HTTP, HTML, SSL, Cookies, Proxies and others. Here's the software and hardware Lou uses to get stuff done.

Computer Business Review[^]:

"For many years I've been saying that from a security point of view there is no big difference between Mac and Windows. It's always been possible to develop Mac malware, but this one was a bit different. For example it was asking questions about being installed on the system and, using vulnerabilities, it was able to get to the user mode without any alarms."

Mother Jones[^]:

A bros-only atmosphere will hurt no one more than the startups that foster it. Beyond the obvious workplace consequences—and potential legal fallout—of this imbalance, testosterone-fueled boneheadedness can also turn into a PR nightmare, especially in an industry awash in social media.

The Code Project[^]:

In this installment we talk to Michael Hopke, who helped launch a game and a game development company while still in college.

The Little Calculist[^]:

Here’s the deal: typed arrays are not fully portable. On the other hand, can we really trust that web applications will write portable code? For now, we should let browser vendors on big-endian systems make that decision, and not force the decision through the spec. If they end up all choosing to emulate little-endian, I’ll be happy to codify that in the standards.

Less Than Dot[^]:

When we're producing code, we have to be mindful that there will be a person consuming our code and stop focusing on just getting it out of our head. When we come back to this code in 6 months we want to be able to read it easily, be able to safely make assumptions about elements in it, understand the intent as well as the concrete implementation, and do so with the least amount of re-reading possible.

mir.aculo.us[^]:

My recommendation: learn the language, and use it to your liking; and don’t rely or blindly accept what any “wise elders” tell you. Try to do something new and crazy every day. You might not end up using the crazy, but it’s the best way to master JavaScript. Develop your own style that you are comfortable with. Experiment.

VIM Adventures[^]:

VIM Adventures is an online game based on VIM's keyboard shortcuts (commands, motions and operators). It's the "Zelda meets text editing" game. It's a puzzle game for practicing and memorizing VIM commands (good old VI is also covered, of course). It's an easy way to learn VIM without a steep learning curve.