Google Now, the new NSA Oct 24, 2015 I’m going to make a bold claim here, but I don’t care. Google Now is essentially a mechanism to spy on people and I think everyone should disable the feature immediately. ...
Google kinda sucks these days Sep 13, 2015 I’ve noticed a lot of new quality coming from Google lately. @GooglePlay I have nothing but problems with Books web interface. ...
Packtpub.com Free Learning Jun 3, 2015 Over at Packtpub.com, they’re offering a free book every day as part of a free learning initiative. They’ve had some good books in the past for free (R Starter, Node Web Development, Mastering NInject for Dependency Management). ...
[javascript] Be sure to read documentation carefully… May 10, 2015 I have a love-hate relationship with JavaScript. I love the language, but I hate the idiosyncrasies. And like many others, I use MDN pretty regularly to verify function signatures, browser support, or to find example code or shims. ...
Review: Core Java for the Impatient Apr 20, 2015 I’ve just finished reading Core Java for the Impatient by Cay S. Horstmann. I also own Scala for the Impatient by the same author, and I really loved that book. ...
Review “Learning 2D Game Development with Unity: A Hands-On Guide to Game Creation” Apr 7, 2015 I’ve just finished reading Learning 2D Game Development with Unity: A Hands-On Guide to Game Creation, and I really enjoyed it despite many issues with the actual text (I’ll try to cover everything here). ...
iTerm2 Toolbelt Apr 5, 2015 I’ve been using iTerm2 for 2 or 3 years now, and I’ve only just now noticed the ‘toolbelt’ option in the window menu. ...
Review: Swift for the Really Impatient Mar 21, 2015 I’ve recently finished reading Swift for the Really Impatient. It was a really good book; I’d give it 4 out of 5 stars. ...
Create configurable Angular services using providers Mar 15, 2015 With Angular 2 on its way, it seems like a lot of developers are now afraid of Angular 1.x. I have nothing bad to say about Angular. ...
Review: Microsoft .NET – Architecting Applications for the Enterprise, 2nd Edition Mar 13, 2015 I’ve recently finished reading Microsoft .NET – Architecting Applications for the Enterprise, 2nd Edition by Dino Esposito and Andrea Saltarello. This book caught my attention for two reasons. ...