Rob Janssen

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(Web) Development Sucks, and It's Not Getting Any Better

That’s quite a claim! I’m sure many will disagree with me, but since this is my blog you’re going to get my rant! :) Over the past few months, I’ve been thinking more and more about the general frustrations around web programming in 2014. For example:

Ask Ars: Why are some programming languages faster than others?

In our look at scientific computing and the continued longevity of Fortran in science and engineering circles, one of the recurring themes in the discussion that followed was performance.

Unicode ? JavaScript

Mathias Bynens explains the basics of Unicode, the various ways JavaScript relies on Unicode, and why this matters to JavaScript developers.NewCircle's HTML5 Training: http://crcl.to/1ir2chttp://www.meetup.com/sfhtml5/

CShell

What is CShell? CShell is an interactive C# scripting environment. It allows you to use C# without any fluff right in a console like environment called a read-eval-print-loop (REPL).

Why You Should (Almost) Never Rewrite Your Software

Software startups are fun. In the early days, you have an idea, and a few developers (usually including one of the founders) cranks away and manifests that idea into an application that sort of works -- every other day, except Mondays, or on days when you're giving an important demo.

Gatling : Load Testing like a King

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Introduction to i18n

This document describes basic concepts for i18n (internationalization), how to write an internationalized software, and how to modify and internationalize a software. Handling of characters is discussed in detail.

Automatic error and crash reporting - raygun.io

Raygun is a product of Mindscape, a leading developer tools company. Your software faults get automatically sent to the Raygun service and analysis begins immediately.

Intro to IPC | Interprocess Communication

In computing, inter-process communication (IPC) is a set of methods for the exchange of data among multiple threads in one or more processes. Processes may be running on one or more computers connected by a network.

If you *must* use .NET System.IO.Ports.SerialPort

As an embedded developer who writes desktop software mostly for configuration of, and data download from, peripheral devices, I use serial data streams a lot.  Mostly USB virtual serial posts from FTDI, but also the USB Communication Device Class and real 16550-compatible UARTs on the PCI bus.

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