Naming From the Outside In — Kent Beck shares some provocative thoughts on the naming of things within code. // Kent Beck

C, the Enduring Legacy of Dennis Ritchie [PDF] — A tribute to the late Dennis Ritchie given at Bell Labs' 'Dennis Ritchie Day' last week.

JavaScript Tops Latest Programming Language Popularity Ranking // TechCrunch

ConFoo.ca (Canadian Web Technology Conference) Call for Papers Open

The HTML5 Developer Conference - San Francisco, October 15-16 — Speakers include Paul Irish, Steve Souders, Doris Chen, Ilya Grigorik, Tom Hughes-Croucher, Tomomi Imura, and.. many more. Tickets available for $139 until the end of the month.

Understanding C by Learning Assembly — A look at disassembling and reading a simple C program with GDB and then using GDB and assembly to understand how static local variables work in C. // David Albert

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Reviewed // Dr Dobb's Journal

Toward Higher Precision in Timekeeping — A look at PTP (Precision Time Protocol) and how it's an emerging alternative to NTP (Network Time Protocol). // Rick Ratzel

Visual Programming and Why It Sucks — The idea of 'visual programming' never seems to die away but invariably fails to catch on. Worth it for the comments more than anything. // Davor Babic

Building a Geofencing System — A short series of posts that digs into using Ruby and MongoDB to build a 'geofencing' system. // John Murray

Damn Cool Algorithms: Cardinality Estimation

Web Fonts Performance: Making Pretty, Fast — An in-depth look at Web fonts and their bandwidth and performance impact. // Ilya Grigorik

Why 0.1 Does Not Exist In Floating-Point

PostgreSQL 9.2 — Improved performance, JSON data type support, cascading replication support.

Visual Studio Express 2012 — The free 'express' version of Visual Studio 2012 is now available for building Windows desktop apps with C#, Visual Basic, and C++. A 600MB download. // Microsoft

WebStorm 5.0 — JetBrains' JavaScript IDE // JetBrains

Haskell GHC 7.6.1

F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web // Microsoft

WebMatrix 2 — Microsoft's free web development software // Microsoft

The UNIX Operating System — A very old but very enjoyable video. Features Ritchie, Thompson, Kernighan and others. // AT&T Archives

Need Some Cache? Redis in Depth

Xiki: A Shell Console with GUI Features — Calling itself 'a shell terminal but better', Xiki is an interesting and flexible console that needs to be seen to be believed.

powerline-bash: A Powerline-Style Prompt for Bash — Powerline is a vim plugin that adds attractive and more functional statuslines to the editor. powerline-bash brings similar styling to your bash prompt.

10 Things You (Probably) Don't Know About Go — A short, code-focused slidedeck from Google I/O 2012 about Google's Go language. // Andrew Gerrand

CPPReference.com: Handy, Dandy C++ and C Reference Wiki

Programmers' Day — It was yesterday, but still.. // Wikipedia

How to Extract Text from HTML (Experts Only) — A delightful piece of coding horror. Read at your peril. // The Daily WTF

Which Recently Developed Algorithms Do You Think Are Interesting? // Reddit

The new Secure Password Hashing API in PHP 5.5

Scaling out Postgres, Part 1: Partitioning

Disks from the Perspective of a File System // Marshall Kirk McKusick

Engineering A Raspberry Pi-based Supercomputer // University of Southampton

Clarity Over Brevity in Variable and Method Names // David Heinemeier Hansson

FoundationDB: Not Your Standard NoSQL Database // TechCrunch

Why Single-Inheritance Multiple-Interface OOP Is The Most Beautiful Thing

Flow: A Coroutine Kernel for .NET

C/C++ Low Level Curriculum Part 9: Loops

Towards Region-Based Memory Management for Go [PDF]

Time to Talk about REBOL's Future

"When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb." // Steve Haflich