Rob Janssen (RobIII)

Consistency and ACID: A new path for NoSQL

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4 Development Lessons from Back to the Future.

One of my favorite movies of all time is a little known flick called “Back to the Future”. I’ve watched those movies so many times that I can literally quote them the whole way through when I watch it. (This is not a party trick that is much appreciated however.

This is Why You Spent All that Time Learning to Program

There's an initial shock-value teaser to keep you watching. News stories are read in a dramatic, sensationalist fashion by attractive people who fill most of the screen. There's an inset image over the shoulder of the reader.

Introduction to NoSQL by Martin Fowler

Check out the 2013 program for GOTO Aarhus http://gotocon.com/aarhus-2013/Martin Fowler's talk from the GOTO Aarhus Conference 2012:ABSTRACT:Martin gives a rapid introduction to NoSQL databases: where they came from, the nature of the data models they use, and the different way you have to think abo

No. 504 : Ethiopian Binary Math

Click here for audio of Episode 504. Today, a witch doctor practices computer arithmetic. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.

10-04-13 - The Reality of Coding

How you actually spend time. 4 hours - think about a problem, come up with a new algorithm or variation of algorithm, or read papers to find an algorithm that will solve your problem. This is SO FUCKING FUN and what keeps pulling me back in. 8 hours - do initial test implementation to prove concept.

You Must Try, and then You Must Ask

When I was a wee little New Hire at my current employer, one of the things that came up a lot was the "15 minute rule." That is, if you're stuck on a problem, take a solid 15 minutes to bash your brain against it in whatever manner you see fit.

NES Game Genie Technical Notes

The NES Game Genie from Galoob is a device that allows a player to enter a variety of codes into a Nintendo Entertainment System game in order to cause the game to do things it would not normally do, e.g.

Introducing Microsoft Monitoring Agent

We are very pleased to announce the RTM version of the brand new Microsoft Monitoring Agent. This new tool incorporates the capabilities introduced with Visual Studio 2012’s IntelliTrace Standalone Collector and adds a ton of new features and capabilities.

Reading data from streams, part 3

This is the third and last in my short series about using streams in C#. The other two entries are Part 1 and Part 2. In this final part, I want to talk a little about messaging protocols.

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.

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