Joke:
I’m reading a book on anti-gravity. I can’t put it down.
Web and mobile stuff:
var functionName = function() {} vs function functionName() {} (This ought to be worth reading at least 17 times)
How Adobe Is Moving on From Flash to Embrace HTML5 (Let’s all pan the flash)
Wearables offer hazy hope for mobile chip growth (Ah, yes, a chip off the old frock)
Why Smartphones Are About to Get Tacky as Hell (Crass dismissed – please!)
The Future Of Mobile Advertising Will Be Shaped By Two Trends (Thing one, and thing two)
12 Chrome extensions power users will love (Great spelling error in the initial screen. Maybe they can find a spell-checker for their graphics editor in their search for the next 12 extensions)
F# stuff:
Another Porter Stemmer in F# (Excess baggage not included)
Code coverage using dotCover and F# make (Covering yourself with nothing but a dot – not just for nudists, anymore)
Simple Parallel Array Filtering in F# (Slowing making our way toward complex parallel universe filtering)
F# scripting for a component based game engine (Because it’s fun)
F# and List manipulations ((Sometimes, it’s OK to be manipulative)
Facilitating Open Contributions for the F# Compiler, Library and Visual F# Tools (We open at Effin’ 5 O’Clock Sharp)
Where to practice your F# with fun? (Under the blanket, with a flashlight?)
Twenty six low-risk ways to use F# at work (Feel free to try this at home, too)
Other stuff:
Programming Sucks (Yep. And yet we love it.)
IoT Startup Evrythng Secures $7M Series A From Atomico, BHLP, Cisco And Dawn
Report: Google Glass parts make up 5.3%—roughly $100—of $1,500 price tag (Sounds like a glass half full kind of thing)
America’s nuclear arsenal still runs off of 8-inch floppy discs (Sure, why not? They could come back in style some day.)
Sony develops tape tech that could lead to 185 TB cartridges (And in other back-to-the-future news…)
Good news: IT businesses see growth. Bad news: They can’t find people to hire. (Must be a shortage of twenty-somethings who skateboard and suck down energy drinks)
Millennials and tech: Round pegs in a square cubicle farm (I don’t think hatred of cubicles is restricted to millennials)
The Puntastic Programmer 