Studies conducted by Google show that for many developers finding code online consumes a large portion of the day. Finding a simple function, a library, a useful package, a reusable component or a useful “how to” blog tutorial isn’t always simple. Knowing if you can trust and use the code you found can be even […]
Tag Archives: JavaScript
4 tips to code while overcoming our own psychological flaws
Given the choice between one piece of cake right now or a whole cake one month from now, we would probably choose the first. This psychological bias is known as “Time Preference” or “Delay Discount.” We’ve all seen this fine example of kids trying to hold on by not eating a marshmallow, in hope of […]
New data on open source: Reinventing the wheel every day
New data from the open source reveals the story of a simple javascript function. One line of code was re-invented over 100 times and duplicated over 1,000 times across GitHub’s top 10,000 repositories. This is only a symptom of a much deeper problem. Imagine every time you wanted to drive a car, you had to […]
New Node.js v6 boosts security, reliability for IoT jobs
Amidst the fast-changing landscape of the Internet of Things (IoT), the world’s fastest growing open source platform Node.js launched a major update that will enhance its security, reliability and performance for IoT-related solutions. News of the update came from the Node.js Foundation, an industry-backed, community-led consortium that developed the open source platform. It announced the […]
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What Mozilla’s WebAssembly Means: More Powerful Web Apps
A standard championed by Mozilla and its rivals could supercharge the Web.
NPM Wants To Push JavaScript Developers To Make Lego-Like Web Apps
The slogan it’s not using yet: One repo, one module.
How Asm.js Could Transfigure PC Gaming
It could literally change the game, but it’s not there yet.
Can We Please Stop Fighting The Native vs. Web App Wars?
Most mobile apps are hybrids already. Let’s move on.
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Copycat Framework IO.js Beats Node.js To A Fully-Featured Version 1.0
Which isn’t to say the two won’t reunite later.
Teach Your Fish To Text And Beyond: ReadWrite’s Year In Tutorials
Our best beginner computer programming tutorials of 2014
Popular Coding Framework Node.js Is Now Seriously Forked
Which could throw its future into serious doubt.
Don’t Rely On Salary Data To Pick A Programming Language To Learn
Current demand says nothing about earnings potential.
HTML5’s “Dirty Little Secret”: It’s Already Everywhere, Even In Mobile
Just look under the hood, says EmberJS co-founder Tom Dale.
JavaScript Dominates GitHub, Language Study Shows
The real reason? JS frameworks.
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Rewriting code all the time might just slow everything down.
Why Web Tools Like AngularJS Need To Keep Breaking Themselves
Backward compatibility may be a casualty of Internet speed.
Do Fortune 500 Firms Really Operate Like Startups? Not On The Tech Front
Guess what? They’re stuck in the 1990s.