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.
Ilya Birman explains how to use Emerge to make your website load nicely. Emerge is a JavaScript library that he wrote to help with coordinated loading of the page elements. The library is not free, but the license fee is very reasonable.
The examples and documentation look good. I don’t remember seeing something similar, but then again I’m not actively involved with JavaScript these days.
OK, this one is socially funny and statistically cool – Stack Overflow question on how to exit Vim editor was viewed over a million times in the last few years. Now, there’s a breakdown of all sorts of statistics about who gets stuck in Vim the most. It’s pretty amazing the kind of questions and answers one can ponder at when having access to a lot of statistical data.
:wq
“Moving from array to class” is yet another thought-provoking take on the difference between arrays and classes in the modern versions of PHP. The benefits of moving from arrays to classes seem to be not only in the code readability and maintainability, but quite clearly in performance and resource utilization (CPU and memory in particular).
Straight from the JSON Feed homepage:
We — Manton Reece and Brent Simmons — have noticed that JSON has become the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will often go out of their way to avoid XML. JSON is simpler to read and write, and it’s less prone to bugs.
So we developed JSON Feed, a format similar to RSS and Atom but in JSON. It reflects the lessons learned from our years of work reading and publishing feeds.
See the spec. It’s at version 1, which may be the only version ever needed. If future versions are needed, version 1 feeds will still be valid feeds.
Sounds interesting…
I came across this interesting Python tool that helps with real-time face detection and emotion and gender classification. Here is a more complete brief description from the project page:
Real-time face detection and emotion/gender classification using fer2013/IMDB datasets with a keras CNN model and openCV.
- IMDB gender classification test accuracy: 96%.
- fer2013 emotion classification test accuracy: 66%.