The Insider News

All this[^]:

I find it really hard to watch baseball nowadays because the game moves so slowly, but I do still like to look at statistics and standings. The standings in Yahoo! Sports include a figure that was uncommon when I was a kid: the teams’ run differential, the difference their runs scored and runs given up. I decided to see how well a team’s run differential predicts its final record.

Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day[^]:

Sometimes Visual Studio will show an assembly reference path incorrectly when inspecting the properties. Example: the reference path might show /projecta/bin when in actual fact the path is ../packages/something. Also if Visual Studio is unable to find an assembly reference it will display the path as "". Accurate References will parse the Solution and its Project to show you the actual assembly path.

Badass JavaScript[^]:

Basically, Doppio is a project to get Java running in the browser without plugins. It includes an implementation of the Java Virtual Machine (VM), as well as an in browser compiler and bytecode disassembler. It is still a work in progress and performance obviously needs improvement before it is ready to be used in production.

readevalprintlove[^]:

ReadEvalPrintλove.org is a site devoted to Lisp advocacy. Herein you will find curated information, links, tutorials, videos, images and other sundreys related to various Lisp implementations.

Proton[^]:

Proton is a declarative multitouch framework that allows developers to specify gestures as regular expressions of touch event symbols. Proton converts the touch events outputted by multitouch hardware into a stream of touch event symbols that encode the touch action (down, move, and up), touch ID (e.g., first touch, second touch, etc.) and custom touch attributes (e.g., touch hit-target, touch direction, etc.). Developers describe multitouch gestures as regular expressions of these symbols, which Proton matches against the touch event stream.

Jacob Gorban[^]:

For the past several weeks I’ve been focusing my efforts on learning how to approach software architecture. Despite my experience in developing several applications, I wanted to read and learn more about this to do a better job in the future, for our upcoming project. My goal was to extract relevant pieces of knowledge with the final goal of producing one sheet of paper with the most important points. I wanted to stick it onto the wall behind my screen, so that I could refer to it with only a glance. It had to have the most important questions that I should ask myself before committing to anything important during software design.

Cloud Computing News[^]:

The problem of online fraud, fake reviews and sock puppetry is only going to get worse, according to recent research. But there are ways to identify likely perpetrators and that’s what Sift Science aims to do. The 8-person San Francisco startup uses machine learning to analyze user interaction with web sites and create a digital profile of who will likely perpetrate online fraud.

W3.org[^]:

Work on HTTP/2.0 will start by creating draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-00, based upon draft-mbelshe-httpbis-spdy-00. That draft will list Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon as authors, to acknowledge their contribution. However, we will have a separate editorial team in charge of the Working Group's drafts. After extensive discussions and consultation with our AD, I've asked Julian Reschke, Alexey Melnikov and Martin Thomson to serve as editors of the HTTP/2.0 draft.