The recent theft from several BitCoin operators has sparkled a debate whether eventually consistent databases are useful or not for banking. On March 2, 2014 Flexcoin lost all its bitcoins due to a code flaw.
When a Space Is Not Just a SpaceDuring a recent email exchange with our search team, Nick Patch, our resident Unicode expert, offered the following advice for a chunk of Java code used to detect Japanese characters: > Pattern.
Why VividCortex Uses MySQLWith all the choice of database systems today, why does VividCortex use MySQL? Given my expertise in MySQL, you might assume that I chose it simply because that's what I know. That's part of it, but there are other reasons too.
HTML5: a Canvas Deep DiveHTML 5 is enorm krachtig. Alleen al het Canvas element levert een enorm scala aan mogelijkheden, voor webapplicaties én voor Windows Apps. Van dynamische rapportages tot games en van video bewerking tot Motion detection.
Use your HTML 5 skills to build Apps for Office (and SharePoint)Sinds Office 2013 is er een zeer interessant nieuw ontwikkelplatform beschikbaar. Het is namelijk mogelijk om Apps voor Office te bouwen door middel van HTML5.
Building a HTML5/Javascript App from start to finishDeze sessie is gericht op iedereen die geen deep-dive wil in een specifiek onderwerp, maar juist een goed overzicht nodig heeft van alles wat er komt kijken bij het ontwikkelen van een App voor Windows 8.1. Naar aanleiding van een aantal eenvoudige Apps, gaan we de verschillende facetten bekijken.
UX Basics: Designing For Your MomIf you want to create a User eXperience (UX) that anyone will be able to use, start by thinking, “could my mom use this?” No offense to the moms! But as Andi Galpern points out, excellent UX design means an experience that anyone, even someone who might be a little less tech-savvy, can understa
How Disqus Went Realtime with 165K Messages Per Second and Less than .2 Seconds LatencyHere's an Update On Disqus: It's Still About Realtime, But Go Demolishes Python. How do you add realtime functionality to a web scale application? That's what Adam Hitchcock, a Software Engineer at Disqus talks about in an excellent talk: Making DISQUS Realtime (slides).
Want to introduce fewer bugs? Test through these five cases.Truth be told, DoneDone is a piece of software I want to use as infrequently as possible. If I use DoneDone a lot, it means I’m making (or finding) a lot of mistakes.
NoSQL? No, SQL! – How to Calculate Running TotalsJava developers don’t know SQL. And it isn’t even necessarily our fault. We’re just not exposed to SQL nowadays.
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.