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Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition)

Smashing Magazine

Stay tuned for lots of articles on metaprogramming, applications, useful Raku modules, programming techniques, guides on how to work with Raku inside containers, and even how to migrate from good ol’ Perl. Tune in each day for an article that explores the wide range of topics in system administration. SysAdvent is back this year! ??

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Two Sessions: C++ Concurrency and Parallelism – 2012 State of the Art (and Standard)

Sutter's Mill

Mainstream hardware – many kinds of parallelism: What’s the relationship among multi-core CPUs, hardware threads , SIMD vector units (Intel SSE and AVX , ARM Neon ), and GPGPU (general-purpose computation on GPUs, which I covered at C++ and Beyond 2011 )? At C++ and Beyond 2011, the attendees (audience!)

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013). Stay tuned!

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

He has a keen interest in web technologies, performance tuning, security, and the practical use of technology. Doug is a freelance mobile performance expert, a popular speaker – particularly on the topic of web tuning and image optimization – and the author of High Performance Android Apps. Doug Sillars. Doug Sillars.

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Embark on a journey towards Autonomous Cloud Management with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

At Dynatrace, we went through such a transformation ourselves, back in 2011 when we saw the need to create a new platform that was purpose-built for these dynamic, cloud-native IT environments. The Dynatrace journey. But when we first embarked on this journey, we looked like a very traditional software company: Two releases per year.

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What I Read in 2014

Tim Kadlec

As a bonus, the book sprinkles sketches and storyboards of the Looney Tunes animations throughout. What I Read in 2011. Coyote, and Daffy Duck evolved and developed their own personalities over time. On Web Typography by Jason Santa Maria 5 ⁄ 5 Fantastic primer on web typography. Past years. What I Read in 2013.

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Music to my Ears - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 28 March 2011 02:50 PM. We see that with our Amazon customers; when they hear a great tune on a radio they may identify it using the Shazam or Soundhound apps on their mobile phone and buy that song instantly from the Amazon MP3 store. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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