Explores applying design thinking and philosophy to programming language creation, moving beyond just engineering and mathematics.
A first-hand account of the first day at VMworld 2017 Europe in Barcelona, covering the vRockstar event, workshops, and the VMworld Hackathon.
Explains how to create and manage Git-compatible symbolic links using relative paths for cross-machine compatibility.
Author's 2017 speaking schedule for tech conferences and meetups, focusing on Apache Kafka and real-time data streaming.
Explores five key Java command line options (--add-exports, --add-opens, etc.) to overcome migration challenges with the Java module system.
A framework for categorizing security engineering work into four key buckets: prevention, detection, damage reduction, and work generation.
Performance benchmark of Gnocchi 4.0, a time-series database, comparing its speed and new Redis driver to version 2.0.
Strategies for performing safe, low-downtime database migrations in PostgreSQL, focusing on adding columns and creating indexes on large tables.
A guide to freeing up disk space by using a terminal command to recursively delete node_modules folders from local Node.js projects.
A tutorial on using Nodemon to automatically restart a Node.js server during development, eliminating the need for manual restarts.
A technical guide on creating PHP 7 extensions for both Linux and Windows, covering C++ integration and class binding.
A developer's guide to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), explaining its architecture and setup for Linux enthusiasts.
Benchmarks comparing Haskell list length implementations, showing how strict tail recursion with accumulating parameters improves performance and memory safety.
Mike Ash announces corporate Swift training, a NYC Swift workshop, and an update on his upcoming book compilation of Friday Q&A articles.
A developer critiques modern software complexity, arguing that overengineered tools like Docker and Gulp create more problems than they solve.
A technical guide on troubleshooting and fixing a missing Content Library service in VMware vSphere 6.5 after an update.
A guide to implementing accessible ARIA live regions in React applications to announce dynamic content changes for screen reader users.
A developer uses a metaphor to explain how different JavaScript frameworks like React and Ember require varying levels of API knowledge.
Upcoming events and sessions about the EnMasse and Eclipse Hono open-source projects for scalable messaging and IoT solutions.
Explains a common Kafka Connect error about JsonDeserializer requiring 'schema' and 'payload' fields and provides the solution.
