Senior developers might learn a thing or two as well
This advice is useful for both beginning and seasoned software developers. There are some jokes intertwined here, too, so you might want to put down that coffee mug.
1. Java is to Javascript like car is to carpet
Hopefully, you know that Java and Javascript are two entirely different things, despite their names. If you didn’t, don’t sweat it; many beginners get confused by it.
So why are they named so similarly?
This is a quote from an interview with JavaScript creator Brendan Eich:
InfoWorld: As I understand it, JavaScript started out as Mocha, then became LiveScript and then became JavaScript when Netscape and Sun got together. …
Even though I’m a Linux junkie, I’m now also a full-time Windows desktop user
Although I’ve been a big fan of Apple’s Macbook Air and Macbook Pro, I’ve recently made the switch to a Dell XPS laptop with Windows on it.
I initially planned on wiping the Dell hard drive to install Linux on it, but since the beast has a 2 TB SSD disk, I changed my mind and decided to create a dual boot setup and keep Windows.
Read on to see how I came to embrace Windows, after years of Linux and MacOS use!
The new Microsoft?
Now that I had Windows at my disposal again, I started experimenting with it. Although there have been cosmetic changes and improvements, there’s also a lot of stuff from the old days that seems pretty much unchanged. For example, there’s still that dreadful registry. Most shortcuts are unchanged, the look and feel are mostly the same, and the hardware support is still excellent. …
Say goodbye to those hard-to-build software projects by containerizing them
More often than not, software projects are difficult to build from source. This can have multiple reasons, here are just a few:
- The project requires lots of dependencies.
- The project requires outdated libraries. Once you install those, other projects might break in turn.
- You’re running Windows or a Mac, but the software is designed to build and run on Linux.
For similar reasons, it can also be hard to run your software in production!
If you’re facing these problems, it’s good to know that there’s an easy fix. It doesn’t require virtualization but instead uses a principle called containerization.
What is a container?
A container is an entity that has everything required to run your software. It…
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