In the 1980s, the easiest way to start a nerd fight was to proclaim that your favorite programming language was best. C, Pascal, Lisp, Fortran? Programmers spent hours explaining exactly why their particular way of crafting an if-then-else clause was superior to your way. That was then. Today, battles involving syntax and structure are largely...
While HTML5, finally standardized, is taking its place in the Web development hierarchy, developers are already looking ahead to HTML6. This is what we might call the radical idea stage. Still largely in its conceptual and debate phase, HTML6 is foundationally similar to HTML, but with XML-like namespaces. Among the many features and experimental functionality proposed for...
Programming knowledge can lead to some great jobs and that’s got more and more people scrambling to learn how to code. Maybe you’ve decided to pursue programming, whether for a career or just as a hobby. Great! But maybe you’re starting to feel overwhelmed. Not so great. We’ve written before on choosing a programming language and we’ve compiled places where you...
So, you’ve been working with Java since the very beginning? Remember the days when it was called “Oak”, when OO was still a hot topic, when C++ folks thought that Java had no chance, when Applets were still a thing? I bet that you didn’t know at least half of the following things. Let’s start this week with some...
Mobile World Congress (MWC) – крупнейшая мобильная выставка. Каждый год она собирает десятки тысяч посетителей, а основные компании показывают свои новинки. HTC Флагманский смартфон тайваньской компании долгое время обрастал все большим числом утечек и слухов, пока немецкий интернет-магазин не представил HTC One M9 в своем каталоге. Новый флагманский смартфон получил, судя по всему, не так уж...