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One time charges are pretty typical when layoffs are announced. They are usually the cost of severance pay for the weeks or months of salary paid to employees who are no longer wor…

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts are classics and the content and presentation have aged quite well over the years. The topics demonstrate intermediate/advanced web d…

Paul Irish created a google reader feed of front-end blogs located here: http://paulirish.com/2011/web-browser-frontend-and-standards...

> There are no `Models` in the framework by default although there's a plugin which does fine job. Can I ask which plugin you are referring to? I've been looking for something like…

In some ways 'ship spinning' in eve was the iphone equivalent of dragging a screen past its boundary and watching it snap back in place. Dragging the camera (with a mouse down, mov…

I second watching the WePay talk. One of the best pieces of advice I heard at Startup bootcamp came from Bill Clerico (WePay CEO) when he described building software as a community…

The overthinking it podcast is one of my favorites. A panel generally overthinks movies and other artifacts from pop culture and arrives at some interesting concepts by following H…

The intelligence of crows has always been my favorite. Joshua Klein talks about a cleaver way to create a mutually beneficial relationship with a species usually considered to be a…

I only recently spent enough time with regexs to learn them to the point where I no longer need to consult a reference every time I wanted to write one. Now I wish I had learned re…

CS Junior at Worcester Polytechnic Institute looking for a web development internship in the Boston area. Skilled in Python, Django, Java, Linux and more. Email bmcloughlin@wpi.edu…

my emacs.d still needs a few tweaks but I'm convinced it always will. most useful parts: replacing fundamental mode with text-mode as the default mode when a new buffer is open. (s…

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Worcester Polytechnic Institute