Rob Janssen

Keeping the Pirates at Bay

This is what happened to Insomniac's 1999 Playstation release, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage. Even though it had good copy protection, it was cracked in a little over a week.

The idea of giving up is worse than of it killing me: How $150,000 post-it came to be?

The whole thing started with an innocent promise of two naive teenagers. It was in August 2004, our last summer at primary school, when Premek and I started with our first project – a movie website Coming Soon Planet.

When to declare classes final

In the last month, I had a few discussions about the usage of the final marker on PHP classes. It is therefore clear that coders need a better explanation of when to use final, and when to avoid it.

Lou's Pseudo 3d Page

NEW: Important details on the segmented road system and some additional linksNEW: An (optional) explanation of finding field-of-view for the 3d projection formulaNEW: An analysis of S.T.U.N. RunnerNEW: General writing improvements

OS X Yosemite: Enter characters with accent marks

OS X Yosemite: Enter characters with accent marks Enter characters with accent marks

Control the terminal, the right way

Nowadays, there are plenty of terminal emulators in the wild. Each one has a specific way to handle controls.

What most young programmers need to learn

In the past 7.5 years I have supervised over a dozen programming interns at Ronimo and have seen hundreds of portfolios of students and graduates. In almost all of those I saw the same things that they needed to learn.

Apple has lost the functional high ground – Marco.org

A look at the internals of Joda-Time

Getting date and time algebra to work just right has always been a challenging task in software development, so I decided to take a look at the implementation of the Joda-Time library. The obvious place to start looking, if you’re at all familiar with the library, is the DateTime class.

Stack Exchange

9 web servers RAM: 48GB 4 sql servers Organized as 2 clusters Stack Overflow RAM: 384 GB • DB size: 1.6 TB Stack Exchange, Careers, Meta RAM: 288 GB • DB size: 1.2 TB 2 redis servers RAM: 96GB Master Slave It’s a unique custom, high performance index of Stack Exchange questions.

This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.

This list is compiled from my Pocket list.