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WAT! JavaScript, Ignorance And Prejudice |
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Written by Mike James
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Monday, 17 June 2013 10:41 |
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It is easy to make fun of a language when you don't really understand it and are simply comparing it to what you already know. JavaScript suffers a lot from the WAT! style of humor. So does it deserve it?
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Last Updated on Monday, 17 June 2013 14:22 |
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Why The End User Cloud Is Dead |
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Written by Alex Armstrong
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Friday, 24 May 2013 13:38 |
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As a programmer I have always seen the cloud, and more accurately cloud deployment, as a friend. It's one way to get an app as a service into the user's hands. Just recently, however, I have had the tables reversed. With me as the user, I suddenly find a cloud delivered app not quite as attractive as I thought.
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Last Updated on Friday, 24 May 2013 18:23 |
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Microsoft v The Developers |
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Written by Mike James
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Friday, 17 May 2013 11:16 |
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Build 2013 is on the horizon and it is time, once again, for Microsoft programmers to consider their positions. Has Microsoft sold the desktop in an effort to buy mobile?
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Last Updated on Friday, 17 May 2013 13:36 |
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Why Do We Try To Make Programming Like Something Else? |
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Written by Mike James
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Friday, 10 May 2013 16:35 |
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There has been a long tendency in the development of programming to try to turn it into something else - mathematics, logic, engineering - anything as long as we can get away from programming. Why, when what makes software different from all of the above is clearly its strength and not its weakness?
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Last Updated on Friday, 10 May 2013 18:28 |
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Tools Doth A Language Make |
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Written by Mike James
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Friday, 03 May 2013 12:14 |
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Languages are not islands that can be considered in isolation. They have to be part of a development environment and it is time that this was fully recognized. A language isn't just syntax and semantics. A language is syntax, semantics and an IDE.
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Last Updated on Friday, 03 May 2013 18:13 |
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