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Alan Kay Biography

The Crazy Programmer

He is popularly known for his outstanding work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user-interface design. Alan completed his schooling at Brooklyn Technical School in New York. In 1984, he joined Apple and due to his extraordinary contribution, he became an Apple Fellow, but that group was closed in 1997.

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring. Done well, TDD eliminates an entire class of programming errors. TDD isn’t perfect, of course. TDD is difficult to add to legacy codebases. Why TDD Works.

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Top 10 Highest Paid Programming Languages in 2019

The Crazy Programmer

Lets have a quick look on each of these technologies. This language can fetch the developers a salary much closer to around six-figure due to the dependency of Apple on this language. Just because of its high rated reviews, Coursea and Dropbox have started showing interest in the Rust. United States. PowerShell/Bash/Shell.

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Cypress: a new generation of end-to-end testing

Perficient

Cypress has become a popular tool for web applications due to a number of distinctive advantages such as user-friendly interface, fast test execution, ease of debugging, ease of writing tests, etc. Selenium is aimed more at QA automation specialists, while Cypress is aimed merely at developers to improve TDD efficiency.

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SMBleed (CVE-2020-1206) and SMBLost (CVE-2020-1301) Vulnerabilities Affect Microsoft SMBv3 and SMBv1

Tenable

The first version of the SMB protocol (SMBv1) was developed at IBM by Barry Feigenbaum in 1983 and it was eventually implemented in Microsoft Windows in 1992. However, after reviewing all the changes, they decided that marking this release as a minor revision “doesn’t do justice [sic] the work that has gone in.” SMB version 3.1.1

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AoAD2 Practice: The Planning Game

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Kick off the planning game by reviewing the team’s purpose, describing how the SIVs you’ve chosen fit into the overall plan, and why these SIVs are the most important to do first. Stories that you can’t size because of technical unknowns. Stories that are too big.

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Friction

LeanEssays

But this is not true in Stockholm, where taxis can charge any rate they wish simply by posting it in the window. Full stack startups focus on creating a world that works the way it should work , given today’s technology, rather than optimizing the way it does work, given yesterday’s mental models. That’s cognitive load.