Commuting to work by public transportation? Doing the dishes? Regardless, you might want a distraction. I found some time during the holidays to look at some new articles and videos on the web. (This is a digest from my Twitter feed. Follow me @johnnybigert.)
Great stuff:
- Steve McConnell – brilliant as always. What makes a World Class Software Company? video
- Great talk on API design by Joshua Bloch. video
- “JavaScript the Good Parts” video. Here’s something you (or I) never expected me to say: JavaScript is a really cool language! See for yourself: video
- No refactoring? Good article on design principles: “SOLID is append only”. article
- Nice paper on how Spotify’s peer-to-peer technology works (by former colleagues from KTH :) article
Good stuff:
- Demo of how to s
et up an Windows Azure project and run it locally. Extensive prerequisites! video
- Local file storage, 3d animation, audio analysis etc. in HTML5 today! Demo/presentation video. video
- Intro video, Amazon Web Services: wow! CloudFront, Queues, SimpleDB, MechTurk, Private Cloud, DNS… It goes on and on! video
- Confusing presentation but great message: “Jellyfish makes sure your common JavaScript code works for any browser/target”. video
- Nice intro to jQuery from a twelwe-year old kid(!). I’m humbled. video
- Domain driven development? The “Supermodel” DDD framework: “make simple MVC stuff easy and complex stuff possible”. video