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Facebook Compiling PHP to Run on the JVM?
An article popped up today claiming that Facebook is investigating compiling PHP to run on the JVM. Until now, Facebook has been using a PHP-to-C++ cross compiler. But the addition of invoke dynamic to...
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How To Be The Next Big Thing
Everyone wants to be the next big thing, but few of us are fortunate enough to know where to start. Luckily, Paul Graham gave some insight into this in his latest post, How To Get Startup Ideas....
View ArticleGradle Effective Implementation Guide: Book Review
Until recently, Ant has been my build system of choice: functional, proven and, it just works. So, I was intrigued to see what Gradle could provide instead. So when Hubert Klein Ikkink , one of DZone’s...
View ArticleRunning Lean: Book Review
If you want to execute lean practices at your startup, then Running Lean by Ash Maurya should be top of your reading list. Highly regarded by reviewers across the board, the book claims to help you...
View ArticleShipping Greatness: Book Review
Something every developer and team aspires to is shipping great software. But as we all know, it doesn’t always work out that way. So what can we learn from Chris Vander Mey’s Shipping Greatness ?...
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Use Chrome as Your JavaScript IDE
Earlier this week I attended FOWD, a fantastic conference for web designers and developers in the heart of London. One of the highlights of the trip was the JavaScript Web Warrior workshop with Addy...
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Instant Dependency Management with RequireJS
Greg Franko has put together a really concise, useful book on RequireJS. Weighing in at just 29 pages, this book is not too demanding on your time. Don’t let that discourage you; the knowledge you’ll...
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Introducing donate:code
Over the past few months, I’ve been working on building up a foundation that aims to help charities and community groups to gain access to software developers and designers in order to build websites,...
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Beginning Backbone: My First Book
It’s been a long time ambition of mine to write a technical book. In the second half of 2013, I finally got the opportunity to do that, publishing Beginning Backbone.js with Apress. The book is...
View ArticleSingle Page Applications: The Benefits & Pitfalls
Over the past few months I’ve had the opportunity to speak at some local events in Cork about developing single page applications, with a focus on Backbone.js. Both the CorkDev and Cork ALT.NET events...
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