Rob Janssen

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This Is What Happens When You Let Developers Create UI

Deep down inside every software developer, there's a budding graphic designer waiting to get out. And if you let that happen, you're in trouble. Or at least your users will be, anyway: If you let your developers create your UI, hilarity ensues, as in this classic OK/Cancel strip.

A Long-Awaited Check of Unreal Engine 4

On March 19, 2014, Unreal Engine 4 was made public available. Subscription costs only $19 per month. The source codes have also been published at the github repository. Since that moment, we have received quite a number of e-mails, twitter messages, etc., people asking to check this game engine.

Beej's Guide to Network Programming

Beej's Guide to Network Programming Using Internet Sockets Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hallbeej@beej.us Version 3.0.15July 3, 2012 Copyright © 2012 Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall Contents 1. Intro 1.1. Audience 1.2. Platform and Compiler 1.3. Official Homepage and Books For Sale 1.4.

4 things that will piss off your developer

No matter what kind of company you’re running today, the use of technology is inevitable. You’re either using some kind of technology product or service to conduct your business. Furthermore, as your business scales, the requirement to build your technology becomes more and more pressing.

C# Guru - An Interview With Eric Lippert

NV: Could you clarify when to use await and when Task.Run? EL: The two do very different things.

Windows is not a Microsoft Visual C/C++ Run-Time delivery channel

There's a DLL in the system directory called MSVCRT.DLL, and from its name, you might think that it is the Microsoft Visual C/C++ Run-Time library. That is a perfectly reasonable guess. But it would also be wrong.

NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years

The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said.

ReSharper and Roslyn: Q&A

As you probably know based on news from BUILD Windows conference last week, Roslyn, the new .NET Compiler Platform with code analysis APIs for C# and VB.NET, has been pushed to Preview phase and open sourced.

Write Code Every Day

Last fall, work on my coding side projects came to a head: I wasn’t making adequate progress and I couldn’t find a way to get more done without sacrificing my ability to do effective work at Khan Academy. There were a few major problems with how I was working on my side projects.

OpenSSL Heartbeat (Heartbleed) Explained (BEST ON YouTube!) Steals Credit Card INFO

There was a devastating security flaw in the OpenSSL implementation of the SSL / TLS protocol (CVE-2014-0160). The vulnerability occurs in what is known as t...

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