A big part of my work has to do with code. I’ve worked as system administrator – installing, patching, and configuring someone else’s code. I’ve worked as independent programmer, writing code on my own. I also programmed as part of the team. And on top of that, I worked as Team Leader and Project Manager, where I had to interact a lot with programmers. Programming world on its own is as huge as the universe. There is always something to learn. When I find something worthy or something that I understand enough to write about, I share it in this category.
Zend Technologies, the company behind PHP, has been acquired by Rogue Wave Software. This sounds like huge news, except that I have no idea about who Rogue Wave Software are, what they do, and what’s their plan in regards to PHP. Sure, the announcement suggests that they’ll help to push PHP technology into the enterprise. But, I guess, that remains to be seen.
Congratulations and kudos to Zend Technologies for all the work they’ve done so far.
An interesting talk by GitHubber Zach Holman on code, teams and process – “move fast & break nothing“. It covers everything from DO’s and DONT’s, tools, and even Blue Angels jet fighter flying squad. (Check the link above for slides and transcript, if video is not your thing).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l288f7oMCEU
Here’s an entertaining collection of bug reports:
A bug report is sometimes entertaining either because of the personalities involved or because of the bug itself. Here are a collection of links into public bug trackers; I learned about most of these in a recent Twitter thread.
GitHub blog brings us a piece of exciting news – now you can add more attachment types to comments. The list is no longer limited by images alone. Now you can attach Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, as well as plain text and PDF documents. This feature alone will make GitHub Issues into a much more viable bug tracking option for many projects and companies.
Toptal runs the article “One Size Fits Some: A Guide to Responsive Web Design Image Solutions“, which discusses one of the trickiest problems of today’s web design and development – responsive images. They cover several tools and approaches – from HTML5 elements to on-the-fly image resizing and source shuffling.
Much recommended!