Category Archives: Programming

DARPA Shredder Challenge

Neat chal­lenge, it would be cool to work on this prob­lem but image analy­sis is so far out of my area of expertise.

Panic Blog – Panic State of the Union ’11

Coda is the app I prob­a­bly spend the most time in out­side of the browser, can’t wait for ver­sion 2.

Seldo.Com Blog – PHP needs to die. What will replace it?

I use PHP for my day job every day and will prob­a­bly still be using it years from now, but there are times I wish the lan­guage itself was more modern.

Eric’s Archived Thoughts – Searching For Mark Pilgrim

It would be quite depress­ing not to have those resources avail­able, Dive Into HTML5 was “the” online resource for HTML5.

Zach Holman – Scaling GitHub’s Employees

Pretty cool read, the focus is on automat­ing tasks so new employ­ees don’t need to know a lot to get started and work­ing, hav­ing teams that focus pri­mar­ily on one sin­gle part of GitHub and reduc­ing complexity.

Vivek Haldar – Size is the best predictor of code quality

Essen­tially length of code tied with code met­rics becomes a rea­son­able pre­dic­tor of bugs.

Mark Story – Using bcrypt for passwords in CakePHP

Awe­some, I tried doing this in CakePHP 1.3 a few weeks ago but couldn’t get it to work right all the time.