Saturday, 30. January 12016
p3k dots

Currently researching a lot about coding standards for web development – here is another one for CSS by 18F, a division of the the General Services Administration.

Initially, I was pretty frantic about this – just because everyone and your grandmother tells you about how absolutely necessary a common coding style is…

In the meantime, though, I also came across rebuttals like this one: “Why I Have Given Up on Coding Standards”.

Now I’m in coding standard limbo.

James Bridle: Every Redaction.

Black market activities cause harm to people, damage the environment, and deny governments tax revenue (among other things)” – but it shows again: everything got its price.

May contain traces of many general development tips.

JavaScript At Scale— Achieving High Velocity.

Donald Rumsfeld, 83, turns app developer with Churchill’s card game.

“Mr. Rumsfeld can’t code. He doesn’t much even use a computer. But he guided his young digitally minded associates who assembled the videogame with the same method he used to rule the Pentagon—a flurry of memos called snowflakes. As a result, ‘Churchill Solitaire’ is likely the only videogame developed by an 83-year-old man using a Dictaphone to record memos for the programmers.”

Super Maria Sisters!

At University of Southern California, women now outnumber men in video game design graduate program.

They be dammed!

New York Is Going to Turn Off Niagara Falls.

(…) the average time to deliver an office IT project increased by more than a month from 2010 to 2015 (…)

In Japan, the CD is still king. Why does one culture resist online music?

Can you?

Can Pomplamoose’s Nataly and Jack guess the song based on .2 seconds of playback?