Argentine player Antonio Rattín, whose defiance led to introduction of yellow and red cards, dies at 89

After he protested a foul and was sent off for ‘verbal dissent’ during the 1966 World Cup, FIFA decided a system was needed ...
ADTmag

Java Ecosystem Advances with Strict Field Initialization JEP Amid Cross-Platform Malware Threats

The global Java development ecosystem experienced significant structural changes this week following the introduction of a new OpenJDK enhancement draft alongside warnings from cybersecurity ...
Ubuntu

JavaScript Timestamp Bugs: How UTC Mistakes Break Web Apps

A cron job that worked perfectly for six months suddenly runs two hours early. A payment dashboard shows yesterday's revenue in today's column. Session tokens expire at unpredictable times. These bugs ...
InfoQ

One Cache to Rule Them All: Handling Responses and In-Flight Requests with Durable Objects

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
Athabasca University

Computer Science (COMP) 266

Students are expected to be proficient users of the Internet and to be able to use word processors, text editors and file manipulation tools (including zip compression) effectively. If you do not have ...
Ars Technica

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...
TheServerSide

The 7 benefits of Java

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Note: The original 1995 white paper on Java’s 7 benefits actually said that “Java is interpreted ...
GitHub

Mark Notation

Mark is a unified notation for both object and markup data, combining the best of JSON, HTML, and XML with a clean syntax and succinct data model. The major syntax extension Mark makes to JSON is the ...
Frontiers

CirclizePlus: using ggplot2 feature to write readable R code for circular visualization

In the R programming language, the de facto standard framework for drawing rectangular coordinates is ggplot2. The most important feature of ggplot2 is that it is object-oriented and uses the plus ...
InfoWorld

What is TypeScript? Strongly typed JavaScript

TypeScript is a variation of the popular JavaScript programming language that adds features that are important for enterprise development. In particular, TypeScript is strongly typed—meaning that the ...
Techopedia

What is Big Data?

It’s worth noting that the five V’s – volume, velocity, variety, veracity, and value – can be used to define big data and its characteristics (these are outlined further below). Big data is a term ...