Rob Janssen

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A Year’s Worth of Opinions about Objective-C

About one year ago, I was placed on my first Objective-C project: porting RedPhone from Android to iOS. My part of RedPhone (the backend: audio, networking, crypto) has been done for about a month now.

OpenUI5. Build Once. Run Everywhere.

What is it? UI5 lets you build enterprise-ready web applications, responsive to all devices, running on almost any browser of your choice. It’s based on JavaScript, using JQuery as its foundation and follows web standards.

Prime Number Hide-and-Seek: How the RSA Cipher Works

Prime Number Hide-and-Seek: How the RSA Cipher Works Preface: What is This? The RSA cipher is a fascinating example of how some of the most abstract mathematical subjects find applications in the real world.

Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy?

When people are doing a physical task, it’s easy to assess how hard they are working. You can see the physical movement, the sweat. You also see the result of their work: the brick wall rising, the hole in the ground getting bigger.

jnthn.net/papers/2013-bs-secret-life-of-gc.pdf

DNA seen through the eyes of a coder

This is just some rambling by a computer programmer about DNA. I'm not a molecular geneticist. If you spot the inevitable mistakes, please mail me (bert hubert) at ahu@ds9a.nl. I'm not trying to force my view unto the DNA - each observation here is quite 'uncramped'.

Data centers – Google Data centers

When you're on a Google website (like right now), you're accessing one of the most powerful server networks in the known Universe. But what does that actually look like? Here's your chance to see inside what we're calling the physical Internet.

C# - Generate and Deliver PDF Files On-Demand from a Template Using iTextSharp

Often we need to provide a mechanism for users of our site to download content in the form of PDF files. While this in itself is not technically challenging, I recently had a need to generate customized PDF's on a per-user basis.

Anti-Patterns in Telecommuting

As a veteran telecommuter through multiple jobs in my career, I have witnessed and experienced the many joys of being a remote worker. As for the horror stories, I have more than a few I could tell.

Probable C# 6.0 features illustrated

Adam Ralph has a list of the probable C# 6.0 features Mads Torgersen from the C# design team covered at new Developers Conference() NDC 2013 in London. Shorter way to write a constructor that automatically assigns to private instance variables.

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.