Tuesday, September 02, 2014

book, ideas:‘Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking’

#13. A Summary of ‘Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking’ by Susan Cain | New Books in Brief:

"... evidence indicates that working independently is an important part of having and developing the best ideas, not only for introverts but for everyone
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most creative people tend to be introverted 
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avoid 'groupthink'"

Vert.x =~ node.js / JVM

Vert.x:

"Vert.x is a lightweight, high performance application platform for the JVM that's designed for modern mobile, web, and enterprise applications."



High Performance Reactive Applications with Vert.x @ InfoQ

by Tim Fox on Aug 10, 2014

claiming that it could be faster than node.js, running equivalent scripts...'



High-Volume / Scalable Architectures with vert.x - interview with Eberhard Wolff @ InfoQ




C# 6.0 (language preview)

C# - A C# 6.0 Language Preview: @ MSDN



podcast: C# 6.0 with Bill Wagner (book "Effective C#") @ .NET Rocks!



interesting observation: the only programming languages that could be used on any "platfrom" are JavaScript and C#. By same logic, F# is also usable, to some extent, on all mentioned OS platfroms.



.NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") - Home



C# 6.0 Features Part II : Primary Constructors



Briefly exploring C# 6 new features - CodeProject



C Sharp (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia