Title: CTO’s reflections, Byte-equivalent decompilation & Framework Benchmarks Round 15 News
David Mack has been SketchDeck’s CTO for the past 4 years, and there are a few things he wishes he’d known when he started. Reflecting on the past four years, David offers some advice to any new CTO. Some advice: AngularJS and MySQL might give you scaling problems, functional syntax might lead to more personal productivity, and Hire to keep up with growth, not to generate it.
From general questions to design patterns, a good Back-End focused interview guide is now available. If you are looking to brush up on your back-end skills check out Arialdo Martini’s Back-End Developer Interview Questions. If for some reason you haven’t seen enough FE guides here is one that is great for Front-End and has been updated recently.
Matt Noonan evolves a C decompiler, and shows how byte-equivalent decompilation works. Matt also shows how a A not-quite-byte-equivalent decompilation would work. If you are interested in exactly how it works check out the full paper Matt and his team wrote on the topic.
Josh Marinacci of Mozilla Hacks has an in depth article on using CSS Grid for UI Layouts. With plenty of code, and interactive examples included you can learn about using CSS Grid for your next project. If you aren’t familiar with CSS Grid, here are a couple of examples Josh recommended.
TechEmpower’s Framework Benchmarks Round 15 has arrived. At the start of this round, the project had processed nearly 2,500 pull requests. A full run of these tests can take as much as 90 hours, but they are working on getting and faster results for contributors. Take a look at the results.
Rich Geldreich has 13 lessons he learned while developing the game Age of Empires 1 Definitive Edition. Top lessons include: 1. Get networking and multiplayer working early. 2. Develop and use strong out of sync tools. 3. UWP and Xbox live are probably more complex than you think. Read all of his lessons learned on his Tech and Programmer culture blog.
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by Matthew Ray