This is a nice guide to naming variables written by Jacob Gabrielson. http://a-nickels-worth.blogspot.de/2016/04/a-guide-to-naming-variables.html
Author: M. H. Neifer
Need a refresher on C?
If you need a refresher on C, you might want to have a look at this handy summary from the Stanford CS Education Library. A bit outdated – revised 4/2003 – but still helpful, I think. Essential C http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/101/
ESUG’16 Registration — The Weekly Squeak
Dear Smalltalkers, ESUG’16 registration is open! http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Conference-Registration We also provide you a selected list of hotels here: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Hotels See you @ Prague, Luc — Dr. Luc Fabresse Associate-Professor in Computer Science Mines Douai, Institut Mines-Telecom, France http://car.mines-douai.fr/luc/ über ESUG’16 Registration — The Weekly Squeak
Rails outdated?
You you work with Rails or think about working with it, you might want to read the following article. Today I accept that Rails is yesterday’s software. By Rob Robinson https://medium.com/@deathdisco/today-i-accept-that-rails-is-yesterday-s-software-b5af35c9af39#.95camk5lp I never worked with Ruby. So I cannot complain.
Being A Developer After 40 – Medium
You might want to read the following article on Medium.com about being a developer after 40. I don’t agree with everything in this article, but it is an interesting read anyway. “Being A Developer After 40” https://medium.com/@akosma/being-a-developer-after-40-3c5dd112210c#.9z0wl8wjf
SBCL 1.3.4, released March 31, 2016
Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.3.4 has been released on March 31, 2016. Read the release notes at http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/news.html#1.3.4
Sketch
“Sketch is a Common Lisp environment for the creation of electronic art, visual design, game prototyping, game making, computer graphics, exploration of human-computer interaction and more. It is inspired by Processing Language and shares some of the API.” https://github.com/vydd/sketch
24rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference – Call for Contributions
24rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference – Call for Contributions Prague, Czech Republic from 22 to 26 August 2016 This call includes: Developer Forum Smalltalk Technology Award Internat… Quelle: 24rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference – Call for Contributions
SBCL 1.3.3, released February 29, 2016
Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.3.3 has been released February 29, 2016. Read the release notes at http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/news.html#1.3.3
Heise Online: IBM bringt Swift auf den Server und in die Cloud
“Dank IBM lässt sich die von Apple lancierte Programmiersprache erstmals in Cloud-Szenarien nutzen. Und auch dass Big Blue für Swift nun einen Webserver zur Verfügung stellt, deutet auf zunehmend unterschiedlichere Anwendungszenarien der Sprache hin.” http://heise.de/-3115069 Copyright © 2016 Heise Medien
Aida 6.6 runs on newest Squeak 5
SBCL 1.3.2, released January 31, 2016
Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) 1.3.2 has been released January 31, 2016. Read the release notes at http://sbcl.org/news.html#1.3.2
LWN.net – Removing support for Emacs unexec from Glibc
Removing support for Emacs unexec from Glibc https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/673724/d9809e674cde21df/ Copyright © 2016, Eklektix, Inc.
Biopython
“Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation written in Python by an international team of developers.” http://biopython.org/