6.S184 - Zombies drink caffeinated 6.001 -
SICP has risen from the dead!
(via #2472: Use CoffeeScript! by mjijackson for joyent/node - Pull Request - GitHub)
“
Leave the APIs details in the documentation and look it up when needed.
Details grow irrelevant fast. Concepts on the other hand will serve you much longer and will be present in whatever new technology you are going to use.
” — Kresimir Bojcic — Memorize the Concepts Not the APIs“Though this isn’t yet an important dynamic, as the Boomers retire, and take with them a lot of knowledge of early geological layers of the software-eaten planet, managing risk around old software will turn into a major business. When the last veterans of the earliest still-in-use software layers start to die, we will be in historically unprecedented territory.” —
The Rise of Developeronomics - Forbes
(h/t @zerokarmaleft)
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“The programmer who refuses to keep exploring will surely stagnate, forget his joy, lose the will to program (and become a manager).” — E. Hoigaard - Smooth CoffeeScript
The HTML5 Future is Now: Using Modernizr, Poly-fills, and HTML5 Boilerplate - UserGroup.tv -
The video of my Tulsa TechFest 2011 talk is up on UserGroup.tv.
I don’t know if I’ll watch, but feel free yourselves.
“In a nutshell: if you’re a programmer, you need to take matters into your own hands, and train yourself.” — Steve Yegge — Practicing Programming
Red Dirt Javascript Conference | November 3rd, 2011 -
Early-bird ($49) registration is open!
I’ll be there.
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