Intro

OK, so you've decided to use another framework instead of Phoenix's default bootstrap. Foundation is one of the biggest competitors to Twitter's bootstrap (currently over https://github.com/zurb/foundation-sites[23.000 stars on GitHub]) and was created by Zurb, which offer a wide variety of so-called http://zurb …

To be honest, I'm no big fan of using the default Bootstrap framework provided by Phoenix. The basic version isn't even the problem, it's just I think that Bootstrap-y sites look boring and all the same. There are so many frameworks out there, why don't use another one?

UIKit may …

If you've ever read "Uncle Bob" Martin C. Fowler's Book Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship there's an example in chapter 2 of what good (or bad) use of context means.

It reads as follows:

private void printGuessStatistics(char candidate, int count) {
  String number;
  String verb;
  String pluralModifier …

Yesterday there was a retro computing event at my university. Here you get some impressions:

Have you seen the beautiful game running on the Amiga? It's Dragon's Lair :)

Yesterday I listened to 2 interesting episodes of 2 different programming podcasts:

The first one is called New Rustacean and covers the Rust programming language, which was created by Mozilla as an alternative to low-level language like C/C++. Of course you can write high-level code as well, but I …

"I think the lack of reusability comes in object-oriented languages, not functional languages. Because the problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire …

I had to do a talk in December for university about cloud computing security. Here are some interesting links I found during my research:

• Dropbox Security Bug Made Passwords Optional For Four Hours
• Mac Store Apps Stopped Working Due To Expired Security Certificate
• CloudFlare Was Down Due To Edge Routers …

In case anyone can use my source materials I used for my talk/paper about 'game usability':

• Cognitive Flow: The Psychology of Great Game Design.
• Designing a “playable” UI that secretly teaches how to play.
• Design 101: Playtesting.
• Designing Usable and Accessible Games with Interaction Design Patterns.
• Usability Breakthroughs: Four …

• Write in C
• Write in Go
• WTF??? Lady Java
• Related. The "Java Life" Rap Music Video
• QBasic Nerd
• The SysAdmin Song
• The Day The Routers Died...
• Coder Girl

'I recently saw Neil Gaiman give a talk at which someone asked him how he felt about piracy of his books. He said, "Hands up in the audience if you discovered your favorite writer for free -- because someone loaned you a copy, or because someone gave it to you? Now …