Programming

I’ve been terribly busy with work lately and so I haven’t really had much time for my side projects. I did however managed to get a new version of Millie out of the door.

There’s this project I’ve been working on in ReactJS and Chrome and I needed to use a <webview> component. In case you’re not familiar with <webview>, it looks something like this —

I wrote about how the Go and C# compilers implement interfaces and mentioned how C# deals with clashing method names but I didn’t talk about how Go does it, so here it is.

I make no secret of the fact that I love Go. I think it’s a wonderfully designed language and it gave me nothing but pleasure in the years I’ve been working with it full time.

Github has published a Swift Style Guide: When you have to meet certain criteria to continue execution, try to exit early. So, instead of this: if n.isNumber { // Use n here } else { return }

Go is often described as a simple language. It is not, it just seems that way. Rob explains how Go’s simplicity hides a great deal of complexity, and that both the simplicity and complexity are part of the design.

A few days ago I posted about a new Go package called validator that we initially developed for our own internal use at project7.io but what fun is internal stuff, right?

The thing about working in a startup under stealth mode is you can’t often talk about what you’re doing. Thankfully, from time to time, an opportunity appears that lets us at least share something tangential.

I appreciate beautiful, readable code. And if someone were to ask me for an example of beautiful code, I’ve always had the answer ready: the linked list implementation in the Linux kernel.

The recently approved C++11 standard brings a lot of welcome changes to C++ that modernize the language a little bit. Among the many changes, we find that containers have received some special love.