I had a conversation last November on the PyConEs, when I was on a conversation stating that I am working with truly brilliant people in DemonWare, and then someone asked me: “Do you have problems agreeing in what to do? Normally great developers have problems reaching consensus on tech discuss
How to Create a Table That Can Display One Million RecordsIf you were to create a PHP script that creates a plain HTML table with one million rows, you’ll immediately run into a few problems trying to load it in a browser: It requires downloading hundreds of megabytes (depending on row size) The browser will create millions and millions of DOM elements
Pedro RioJust recently I published my technical goals for 2014 and one of them was to learn more about security. Well it couldn’t have been more appropriate, my Virtual Private Server (VPS) just got hacked, for the second time (I use the VPS to host a Java web application).
Ad blockers: A solution or a problem?It's a cause. It's a curse. It's just business. Ad blockers take a bite out of the $20 billion digital advertising pie. For Mauricio Freitas, publisher of the New Zealand Geekzone website for mobile enthusiasts, ad blocking software has been a major headache.
What are the lesser known but useful data structures?There are some data structures around that are really useful but are unknown to most programmers. Which ones are they? Everybody knows about linked lists, binary trees, and hashes, but what about Skip lists and Bloom filters for example.
Fixing the Most Dangerous Code in the WorldMost non-browser HTTP clients do SSL / TLS wrong. Part of why clients do TLS wrong is because crypto libraries have unintuitive APIs.
A Complete Understanding is No Longer PossibleAmit Singh's Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach is a good place to start. It's not about programming so much as an in-depth discussion of how all the parts of the operating system fit together: what the firmware does, the sequence of events during boot-up, what device drivers do, and so on.
Parsing Big Records with Json.NETJson.NET by James Newton-King is the most popular .NET library for parsing JSON. The common use case is to read JSON data into a string and deserialize the text into an object, as in this example from Newton-King's website: This technique works well for many situations.
kimono : Turn websites into structured APIs from your browser in secondsHi Bug Guys! We recently had a bug in our code comparing ints and shorts, where calling Equals() produced different results from using the == operator. Also, the behaviour of Equals() was not symmetric. Here’s a code snippet that reproduces the behaviour we observed:
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.