Rob Janssen

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AReallyGoodName/OfflineReverseGeocode · GitHub

Allcountries.zip from that site is comprehensive however if you're on mobile try the cities1000.zip file. It's 1/80th of the size.

GeoNames

The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Asynchronous programming

I was invited again to the Brisbane C# Mobile Developers to celebrate Xamarin's 3rd Birthday by delivering a half an hour talk on asynchronous programming. Asynchronous programming is more important than ever and it's extremely important to understand what is going on when we're working with it.

Must-See Tech Talks for Every Programmer

I love a good tech talk. I like to watch them, I like to give them, and now that I have lots of free time on my hands, I've put together a list of the must-see talks for every programmer.

Duality and the End of Reactive

Erik Meijer opens Day 2 with a talk on the end of "reactive", duality, and the usual epic musings of the Erik Meijer mind :) Warning: This is unedited for content, so there are a few f-bombs. I guess then that this is rated PG-13.

Passwordless Login

One of the hard decisions I had to make early on with Shopi was how I was going to manage logging in. It’s a problem any app developer with a back end service is going to have: how do my customers prove who they are?

MaciejCzyzewski/hyhyhy · GitHub

Presentation nano-framework. Binary installers for the latest released version are available at the Python package index.

IBM's Watson Gets A 'Swear Filter' After Learning The Urban Dictionary

According to Eric Brown, an IBM research assistant and the "brains" behind Watson, he and his 35-person team wanted to get IBM's supercomputer to sound more like a real human.

CNET Accused of Bundling Software Downloads with Trojans

A software wrapper used by CNET supposedly tricks users into installing toolbars and Trojans instead of the actual hosted program. Gordon "Fyodor" Lyon is the creator and maintainer of the widely-used network auditing and penetration-testing tool called Nmap.

Jurassic Park: Trespasser CG Source Code Review

Standing alone, those numbers don't mean much. But comparing them to others games (Quake,Doom,Duke3D,...) helps a lot: The volume of code is twice more than other titles released at the same time. The volume is very representative of the complexity of the engine and the collosal scope of features.

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.