200,000$ OpenWRT firmware/UI challenge

admin — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:57:00 +0000

Come up with “the most impressive User Interface/Firmware for Ubiquiti’s newly released open-source embedded wireless platform, the RouterStation

http://www.ubnt.com/

Ruby Summer of Code

admin — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:53:19 +0000

Ruby Summer of Code is a student internship program, modeled after Google’s Summer of Code, designed to help fund student development of Ruby coding projects.

http://www.rubysummerofcode.org/

Google Code Jam 2013 Registration for Google Code Jam 2013 is now open!

admin — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:48:39 +0000

http://code.google.com/codejam/

The Top 10 Programming Languages (For Techies only)

admin — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:45:32 +0000

The knowledge of a handful of programming languages could come to be a lifesaver to many a programmer, especially since most languages that were popular 10 years ago are not as viable as they are now.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2880277/posts

JavaScript:The world most misunderstoond programming language

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:34:36 +0000

JavaScript, aka Mocha, aka LiveScript, aka JScript, aka ECMAScript, is one of the world’s most popular programming languages. Virtually every personal computer in the world has at least one JavaScript interpreter installed on it and in active use. JavaScript’s popularity is due entirely to its role as the scripting language of the WWW.

Despite its popularity, few know that JavaScript is a very nice dynamic object-oriented general-purpose programming language. How can this be a secret? Why is this language so misunderstood?

The Name

The Java- prefix suggests that JavaScript is somehow related to Java, that it is a subset or less capable version of Java. It seems that the name was intentionally selected to create confusion, and from confusion comes misunderstanding. JavaScript is not interpreted Java. Java is interpreted Java. JavaScript is a different language.

JavaScript has a syntactic similarity to Java, much as Java has to C. But it is no more a subset of Java than Java is a subset of C. It is better than Java in the applications that Java (fka Oak) was originally intended for.

JavaScript was not developed at Sun Microsystems, the home of Java. JavaScript was developed at Netscape. It was originally called LiveScript, but that name wasn’t confusing enough.

The -Script suffix suggests that it is not a real programming language, that a scripting language is less than a programming language. But it is really a matter of specialization. Compared to C, JavaScript trades performance for expressive power and dynamism.