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  #46 – Why software sucks

No one makes bad software on purpose. No benevolent programmer has ever sat down, planning out weeks of work, with the intention of frustrating people and making them cry. Bad software, or bad anything, happens because making things is hard, making good things doubly so. The three things that make it difficult are: Possessing the diverse skills needed not to suck.Understanding who you’re making the thing for.Orchestrating the interplay of skills, egos and constraints over the course of...

   Software design,Sucks,Software industry     2012-03-19 13:10:37

  JavaScript Attack/Defend

As developers and designers we work hard to build visually attractive, fast and easy to maintain applications. Our goals are to make sure the applications we build stick to users and keep them coming back for more. Security is not always at the forefront of our minds. No one intentionally builds insecure software but often a lack of security knowledge leads developers to build vulnerabilities into their applications. In this article we are going to examine two web security attacks, how they are ...

   JavaScript,Attack,Defend,Security,Cross site     2011-10-13 13:09:11

  Coding tricks of game developers

If you've got any real world programming experience then no doubt at some point you've had to resort to some quick and dirty fix to get a problem solved or a feature implemented while a deadline loomed large. Game developers often experience a horrific "crunch" (also known as a "death march"), which happens in the last few months of a project leading up to the game's release date. Failing to meet the deadline can often mean the project gets cancelled or even worse, you lose your job. So w...

   Tricks,Advice,Gamedesign,Plan     2012-02-12 04:50:30

  Kubernetes Authentication & Authorization 101

If we want to build a system with user modules, Authentication and Authorization are something that we can never ignore, though they could be fuzzy to understand. Authentication (from Greek: αὐθεντικÏŒς authentikos, “real, genuine”, from αὐθέντης authentes, “author”) is the act of proving an assertion, such as the identity of a computer s...

   RBAC,AUTHORIZATION,AUTHENTICATION,KUBERNETES     2021-06-05 23:19:18

  The Unexplored Potential of Text Messaging for Nonprofit Organizations

Communication is a cornerstone of any organization's success. For nonprofits, communicating effectively with donors, volunteers, and communities can spell the difference between furthering their missions or fading into the background. As technology progresses, so do the means of communication, and text messaging for nonprofit is quickly becoming a crucial tool in maintaining conversations and fostering relationships with key stakeholders. In this article, we will delve into the benefits of this ...

   TEXT MESSAGING,NON-PROFIT     2023-12-19 23:59:49

  True Scala complexity

Update 2: Sorry for the downtime. Leave it to the distributed systems guy to make his blog unavailable. Nginx saves the day.It’s always frustrating reading rants about Scala because they never articulate the actual complexities in the core language.Understandable—this post is intended fill that gap, and it wasn’t exactly easy to put together. But there’s been so much resistance to the very thought that the complexity exists at all, even from on up high, that I thou...

   Scala,Complexity     2012-01-10 07:17:07

  The four key figures behind the success of JavaScript - Douglas Crockford

JavaScript's success can be attributed to at least four key figures: Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSLint and JSON John Resig, the creator of jQuery Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js. We are already very familiar with Brendan Eich and the invention process of JavaScript, so let's start with Douglas Crockford, the second in command of JavaScript. Alliance In the 1990s, Microsoft's dominance overshadowed the whole world. At this time, two challengers e...

   JAVASCRIPT,DOUGLAS CROCKFORD,HISTORY     2023-05-07 06:42:30

  How to check a port is taken by which program on Linux

Lots of you may have encountered some error message stating that the port has been taken by another program while trying to start a program on Linux. And you would want to know which program takes the port you want to use. This post will provide some feasible ways to check out which program is taking a specific port. lsof -i:[port] lsof is the command to list open files on Linux. And if you know more about Linux you should get to know everything on Linux is a file even including networ...

   LINUX,PORT,NETSTAT,LSOF     2018-08-12 04:27:57

  First impression of Github Copilot

It has been some time since I heard about the new generation of AI powered coding assistant -- Github Copilot. Don't get chance to experience it until obtained the tech preview access recently. So this post will document some first impression while using it. For now, this tool is only supported in VSCode and it can support various different programming languages. To enable it, just need to search and install the Github Copilot extension within VSCode. Once that is enabled, you will find that whe...

   GITHUB COPILOT,FIRST IMPRESSION     2021-08-13 22:45:31

  10 Best Android Apps of 2016

The year 2016 has been gone with all its good and bad memories. But in the field of information technology, this year was another boost in which the field rapidly grew and explores some more essentials for the ease of users. In the field of mobile apps, specially users of Android OS, the year 2016 was awesome because in this year, they got many useful apps created by the highly qualified app developers of the world.Experts of Android OS rounded up a lot of apps created in the year 2016 and they ...

   MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT COMPANY,CUSTOM MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT COMPANY     2017-01-10 14:07:32

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