programming
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WebAssembly Arrives In Chrome And Firefox
3Browser vendors have made massive strides with JavaScript performance. Google kicked things off with its V8 engine, but since then, the likes of Mozilla and Microsoft have come back with snappy virtual machines of their own. But JavaScript can only take you so far. The next step is WebAssembly (wasm), which supports compilation from C/C++…
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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 With Speedier Installs And A Leaner Footprint
Windows: Today, Microsoft released the newest version of its popular IDE Visual Studio 2017 for Windows, alongside a preview of the still in development Mac software. The biggest improvement comes in its installation screen, which finally lets you pick and choose which components to install.
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How To Use Google’s Secret ‘Testing On The Toilet’ Philosophy To Your Advantage
Sometimes it can be hard to get little snippets of information to stick in your head, be they procedures for common workplace tasks, to correctly testing complex code. This is a fact Google recognised over ten years ago and one of its remedies was something the company calls “Testing on the Toilet”. Don’t worry, it’s…
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Handy JavaScript Console Commands For Web Developers
In web development, it’s not always easy to keep up-to-date with all the fancy debugging features of modern browsers. That said, a strong command of your browser’s development console can take you a long way, if you’re sharp with JavaScript.