The Insider News

Bob Melton[^]:

So, during the Summer of 2002, several bloggers and tech websites speculated that Dave must be bringing Chimera to the Mac. Except that Chimera was already a Mac application and didn’t need to be ported. So what the hell was Dave doing at Apple? Building another Gecko-based Mac browser? No one knew. And none of this made much sense. Which is probably why the rumors subsided so quickly. But people would remember all of this when Safari debuted at Macworld in San Francisco on January 7, 2003...

beefycode[^]:

Let me express the only feature I really desire in the next version of Visual Studio: Replace the format of all project and solution files with PowerShell scripts. I hear you groaning – just hear me out. I have many reasons for wanting this – too many to list all but the highlights here. In a nutshell they all boil down to the notion of simplicity.

the pluralsight blog[^]:

Microsoft was quite literally founded on Basic. Few of us who were doing software development in the 90′s could argue that Visual Basic successfully lowered the bar for entry such that just about anybody could write a simple program. I would even go so far as to say that Visual Basic was a key to the success of Windows in the 90′s and 00′s.

Code Climate Blog[^]:

We interrupt our regularly scheduled code quality content to raise awareness about a recently-disclosed, critical security vulnerability in Rails. On Tuesday, a vulnerability was patched in Rails’ Action Pack layer that allows for remote code execution. Since then, a number of proof of concepts have been publicly posted showing exactly how to exploit this issue to trick a remote server into running an attacker’s arbitrary Ruby code. This post is an attempt to document the facts, raise awareness, and drive organizations to protect their applications and data immediately.

Martin Fowler[^]:

Emacs is an elderly piece of software, dating back to the mid 70's. Its philosophy of allowing people to easily extend it by modifying the live environment is something shared with a few other elderly-but-groundbreaking systems, such as lisp machines and Smalltalk. That philosophy seems rarer now.

Damien Katz[^]:

For years I've tried my damnedest to get away from C. Too simple, too many details to manage, too old and crufty, too low level. I've had intense and torrid love affairs with Java, C++, and Erlang. I've built things I'm proud of with all of them, and yet each has broken my heart. They've made promises they couldn't keep, created cultures that focus on the wrong things, and made devastating tradeoffs that eventually make you suffer painfully. And I keep crawling back to C. C is the total package.

Engadget[^]:

In making the move from the Surface RT to the Surface Pro, we step up from 1,366 x 768 resolution to 1080p. Same 10.6-inch screen, just a lot more pixel density. And believe us when we say the difference is appreciable. In a side-by-side comparison with the RT, everything looked a little sharper, a little less pixelated. The "S" in the word "Start" on the Start screen, for instance, is thinner, less jagged than on the RT. It's a difference anyone can appreciate, even people who swear they're not display snobs....