I’ve been reading “Coders at Work” by Peter Seibel over the holidays and wanted to share my review. The book is basically a series of in-depth interviews with 15 interesting programmers including people like Brendan Eich (inventor of JavaScript), Ken Thompson (inventor of UNIX), Peter Norvig (Director of Research at Google). Other programmers interviewed are: read more
Those of you that follow me on Twitter will no doubt have been witness to some interesting (and sometimes tedious) discussions between myself, other Flash Platform enthusiasts and Scott Barnes of Microsoft. Scott was an ardent supporter of Flex before his move to Microsoft which makes his perspective all the more interesting. Thought it was read more
Giacomo ‘Peldi’ Guilizzoni – photo © Matt Snow
Most of you will more than likely have heard about Alchemy by now, an Adobe project that allows C/C++ code to be cross-compiled to ActionScript. I was incredibly impressed to see an actual port of Doom running in the browser released into the wild just days after Alchemy hit labs.adobe.com. I recently had the read more
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