Crafting an eye-catching article may be god-gifted talent, for many people. But anyone can learn the skill of article rewriting. You can find articles all around, newspapers, websites, and magazine even at the back of different products. These articles will give a basic understanding of what readers look into articles and what they expect. It will help you to craft an appealing article according to readers demand. For beginners, below you will find a list of four types of articles.Description: This type of article describes the value and characteristics of anything.Explanation: It helps the re...

I did this summarization when I added Lirate_CoffeeScript support for GitHub-Linguist, i.e how does GitHub do Marjdown render and code highlight in its front end.Lots of font end tools used by GitHub are open sourced. They are:1. HTML/CSS/JavaScript1.1 HTML templateGitHub markup and template styleguide : https://github.com/styleguide/templates1.2 Style and CSSGitHub uses replacement of CSS:SCSS：https://github.com/nex3/sassKSS：https://github.com/kneath/kssGitHub CSS styleguide : https://github.com/styleguide/css1.3 Behavior and JavaScriptGitHub uses CoffeeScript:CoffeeScript：http...

Some years ago, one of my managers used to repeat this "Accenture truism" (or so he designated it): to fix or improve something, first you need the right people, then you need the right processes to help those people work together, then finally you need the right tools to support those processes. People, processes, and tools - in that order.This is even more true for tech startups than for corporations. As geeks, whenever we face a problem, we often start by looking for a tool to fix it. "Our team isn't communicating properly - let's set up Campfire." "But I don't like Campfire, why don't we u...

Update: At the bottom of this post, I've linked to two large and quite different discussions of this post, both of which are worth reading... Update 2: If the contents of this post make you angry, okay. It was written somewhat brashly. But, if the title alone makes you angry, and you decide this is an article about "Why Testing Code Sucks" without having read it, you've missed the point. Or I explained it badly :-)Some things programmers say can be massive red flags. When I hear someone start advocating Test-Driven Development as the One True Programming Methodology, that's...