ZDNet reports: JavaScript is now used by more than 16.4 million developers globally, says a survey of more than 19,000 coders — making it the world’s most popular programming language “by a wide margin”. SlashData’s 21st State of the Developer Nation Report examined global software developer trends across 160 countries Read more…
Andreas Kolbe is a former co-editor-in-chief of The Signpost, an online newspaper for (English-language) Wikipedia that’s been published online since 2005 with contributions from Wikipedia editors. Kolbe has been contributing to it since 2006. Last week he returned to the Signpost to share a cautionary tale. Its title? “A photo Read more…
Stockholm’s official app was a disaster. So annoyed parents built their own open source version — ignoring warnings that it might be illegal. From a report: Commissioned in 2013, Skolplattform was intended to make the lives of up to 500,000 children, teachers, and parents in Stockholm easier — acting as Read more…
If you are going to wear a poppy, make it a white one – you will be including the innocent victims of war. These far outnumber the combatants.
Finally, an appropriate membrane for the cinema (low-incline) roof. Commercial-grade 🙂 matériels to be recycled…
