Here is an interesting bit of research – do people prefer tabs or spaces when programming the most popular languages? Tabs or spaces. We are going to parse a billion files among 14 programming languages to decide which one is on top. The results are not very surprising and somewhat disappointing (for all of us, … Continue reading 400,000 GitHub repositories, 1 billion files, 14 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs?
“If programming languages were countries, which country would each language represent?” over Quora is hilarious!  Here are a few bits to get you started: C – Russia. Everything has to be done in a backwards way, but everything is possible, and there’s a lot of legacy. C++ – USA. Powerful, but more and more complicated, … Continue reading Quora: if programming languages were countries …
WPML.org, the web home of the WordPress Multilingual Plugin runs this blog post about the upcoming support for WordPress page builders.  Apart from the good news themselves, there are some insightful results of the survey that the team did, trying to understand who uses page builders and how.  I found the stats on which page builder … Continue reading Page builders and multilingual WordPress websites
There is this discussion over at StackOverflow: Should I use Vagrant or Docker for creating an isolated environment? It attracted the attention of the authors of both projects (as well as many other smart people).  Read the whole thing for interesting insights into what’s there now and what’s coming.  If you’d rather have a summary, here it … Continue reading StackOverflow: Docker vs. Vagrant, with project authors’ comments
QA Symphony looks at 3 serious (but common) misconceptions about software testing: Testing is a Cost Center Legacy Tools are Good Enough Testing Is Easy These are indeed very common. Let me just briefly focus on the last one.  Consider how quickly the complexity escalates.  You are a building a simple website – nothing fancy, just … Continue reading 3 serious (but common) misconceptions about software testing