Rounding up last month’s noteworthy archive entries…
Java for C# Developers: Andrei Rinea has started a nice tutorial series, Beginning Java for .NET Developers. His overview slides also mention a bunch of C# keywords missing from Java that I forgot to list on my page. I’ve added them now.
RNG Range Projection: Stephan T. Lavavej’s presentation rand() Considered Harmful discusses the range projection trap of Visual C++ rand(), along with many other issues, and demonstrates the new C++ 11 (VC++ 2013) facilities which fix them.
Typography Links: Beat Stamm’s The Raster Tragedy at Low Resolution is a textbook-sized multipart article that explains more than you ever wanted to know about display font rendering, including anti-aliasing and hinting. – The Big List of Flat Icons & Icon Fonts provides tons of links to free and commercial icon fonts, as well as tools for creating and manipulating them.
Miscellaneous Links: Jason Davies provides numerous data visualization samples, sometimes interactive, including an amazing collection of Earth maps. – The monumental Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (272 pages, US$395) has been digitized as a $20 iPad app. See Pedar W. Foss’s extensive review for more information on the book and app.
Last week also brought several Internet stories worth reading:
- Facebook records everything you type into its post editor for later analysis, even if you delete it or cancel the post. Note that any web-based editor might do this.
- The Golden Era Of Spam Comments Has Ended. Panicked spammers beg websites to remove their own spam comments, so as to rescue their cratered page rank.
- Why Are Upworthy Headlines Suddenly Everywhere? Because they have been carefully wondtacularized to ensure they’ll stay on top of Facebook’s news feeds.