The History of Web Programming (Up To 2014)
David Kopec shared an excerpt from his 2014 book, Dart for Absolute Beginners. It includes his “speculation, suppositions, and opinions” about the technologies and programming languages from the beginning of the internet until the publishing of his book.
10 Things Ryan Dahl Regrets About Node.js (Video)
The creator of Node.js shares his thoughts about decisions made in the development of the popular JavaScript runtime.
Microsoft Acquires GitHub
In case you haven’t heard… and no, this isn’t about an update to our privacy policy… Microsoft has acquired GitHub for $7.5 Billion in a deal that will be finalized by the end of the year.
PHP in 2018 (Video)
The creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf, talks about his original intentions for the scripting language and the substantial improvements that have been made since version 7.0.
The Benefits Of The Cloud
I have recently made the switch from dedicated server hosting to cloud hosting with Amazon Web Services. The customization and scalability is excellent. Customizing your own virtual private cloud opens up all kinds of options and allows for greater security as well. From hosting a single static website to a large company intranet isolated from the…
Stack Overflow Is Full Of Elitist Jerks?
Stack overflow posted on their blog yesterday, “Stack Overflow isn’t very welcoming. It’s time for that to change.”
New Version Of The “Wine Guesser” Website
I upgraded the Wine Guesser website to have a better matching algorithm and better responsive design along with a few other changes and additions.
Panera Bread Drops The Ball With Customer Data
What happens when you hire the same person who was director of security for Equifax? You get all of your sensitive customer data exposed to the internet for everyone to see!
When Relying On Other Peoples’ Code Goes Wrong
Thousands of projects adversely but temporarily affected by the deletion of an NPM package.
Akamai Helps GitHub Survive The Largest Recorded DDoS Attack – 1.3 Tbps
It was interesting to hear of a massive DDoS that Akamai Prolexic seemingly effortlessly mitigated for its customer, GitHub, on February 28th. The 1.3 Terabits per second attack was mitigated in less than 15-20 minutes and was the largest ever recorded in history.