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
Category: Coding
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/
Squeak Oversight Board 2016 – Call For Candidates
heise online: Java ist Programmiersprache des Jahres 2015 im TIOBE-Index
“Viele Gewinner, aber auch einen großen Verlierer findet man eingangs des Jahres im TIOBE-Index zur Ermittlung der populärsten Programmiersprache. Über allen steht derzeit Java, das einen doch sehr überraschenden Boom zu verzeichnen hat.” http://heise.de/-3067171 Copyright © 2015 Heise Medien
About Python 3 and unicode/str/bytes
You might want to read this interesting article about Python 3 and unicode/str/bytes. Why Python 3 exists Or, the whole unicode/str/bytes thing was done for a reason Brett Cannon Python core developer. http://www.snarky.ca/why-python-3-exists
Small modules vs. standard library
Read about small modules vs. standard library in the following blog post from Atlassian developer Will Binns-Smith. https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/11/what-the-web-platform-can-learn-from-nodejs/ I found this an interesting read. Always remember to abstract from standard libraries in your application code.