These days I write more than I code, but one of the things I miss about programming is the coder’s high: those times when, for hours on end, I would lock my vision straight at the computer scre
What did the Germans do wrong?What did the Germans do wrong? Well, besides the insanity and sub-human behavior seen during the Nazi regime, of course... What did they do wrong in the design and use of the Enigma cryptosystem? They saw themselves as the Master Race, but they certainly didn't understand math or probability.
Scott Hanselman - Fun with JavaScriptScott thought a talk on JavaScript would be more fun, and less productive. You can google for his Productivity talk if you like. If this change makes you sad, please complain to Scott on Twitter at @shanselman.
Antifragile Software Design: Abstraction and the Barbell StrategyIn his book “Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder”, Nassim Taleb introduces the concept of Antifragility, which is the opposite of Fragility. The main question is how things react to volatility (such as randomness, errors, uncertainty, stressors and time).
Necrolis/GeoSharp · GitHubAn offline Geocoding library for .Net coded in C#. Based on the awesome Java lib by AReallyGoodName: https://github.com/AReallyGoodName/OfflineReverseGeocode
Getting Too Cute with C# Yield ReturnI ran across a method that returned an IEnumerable<T> recently, and I implicitly typed its return value. During the course of a series of method extractions, code movement, and general refactoring, I wound up with some code that passed the various unit tests in place but failed curiously at runtime.
VS and .NET tip :- Creating TasklistPreparing for C# / .NET interviews start here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaDn-s...In this video we will see how to create a simple tasklist using tasklist tokens.For more such videos visit us @ http://www.questpond.com
Why PHP doesn’t suck anymoreChances are if you have been in web development for any amount of time you have done some work with PHP and maybe it was a great experience like it was for me, or perhaps it was hours and hours of digging through WordPress code to figure out why a plugin wasn’t working.
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Why Are WebRequests Throttled? I Want More Throughput!By default, a web browser – or in this case any .Net application that uses the System.Net.WebRequest class – will only allow up to 2 simultaneous threads at a time per host domain. One way to lift this limit is to run Fiddler. It bypasses this limit and you can see much more throughput.
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.
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