The first session I attended after lunch was Venkat Subramaniam‘s “Scala Tricks,” held in the Hilton Golden Gate 3/4/5 conference room area. This is the first session in which I switched my planned ...

I have found it both interesting and rewarding to learn a new programming language or major framework on a roughly yearly basis. If forced to self-identify with any single programming language, it ...

Assembly language provides fine grain control. But it’s rarely used these days, with the exception of some operating-system hackers or 8-bit embedded programmers working on small modules. The ...