I first fell in love with XSL in 1999, when Microsoft rolled an XSLT processor into MSXML. I got my hands on the works of Shakespeare marked up in XML and started playing. I found it so shockingly easy to transform a whole play into HTML with XSLT handling the heavy lifting of flow control.
The real and complete story - Does Windows defragment your SSD?There has been a LOT of confusion around Windows, SSDs (hard drives), and whether or not they are getting automatically defragmented by automatic maintenance tasks in Windows. There's a general rule of thumb or statement that "defragging an SSD is always a bad idea.
Katana, ASP.NET 5, and bridging the gapThis post is for developers that have been using the Microsoft Owin components (e.g. the Katana project) and want to know how it relates to ASP.NET 5. As discussed in Katana’s roadmap, the next major version of Katana is being fully integrated into ASP.NET 5.
From 1,000,000 to Graham's NumberWelcome to numbers post #2. Last week, we started at 1 and slowly and steadily worked our way up to 1,000,000. We used dots. It was cute.
Antialiasing: To Splat Or NotNote: this post is adapted from an answer I wrote for the Computer Graphics StackExchange beta, which was shut down a few months ago. A dump of all the CGSE site data can be found on Area 51.
Never Run Your Mongodb as Root UserWe have recently had a "to many open files" problem in one of our Mongodb servers. Mongodb kept saying "Out of file descriptors. Waiting one second before trying to accept more connections." and accepted no more connections.
How a course in operating systems changed meThere are few classes at Princeton that changed me like COS 318 (Operating Systems). It was challenging, time-munching, and exhausting, but looking back: I’m glad I took the course.
Cache is the new RAMThis is a talk given at Defrag 2014. One of the (few) advantages of being in technology for a long time is that you get to see multiple tech cycles beginning to end. You get to see how breakthroughs actually propagate.
Classic Game Postmortem : MANIAC MANSIONGDC 2011 Ron Gilbert Double Fine Productions free content Game Design Design
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.