Most static code analysis tools report the cyclomatic complexity metric, but to understand how to react to high and low values, it's important to know how to calculate McCabe cyclomatic complexity in ...

When developers created Java over 25 years ago to help make interactive TV possible, it’s hard to imagine them dreaming at the time that their brainchild would still be in such heavy use today ...

Akira Tanaka just did a lightning talk on IO.copy_stream, a new method added to Ruby 1.9 last night that does a fast stream transfer all in C code, avoiding the intermediate strings. It's a good ...