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Code In the Dark - TictailThe rules 15-20 min HTML/CSS No preview One champion Hosts
The Z-80 has a 4-bit ALU. Here's how it works.The 8-bit Z-80 processor is famed for use in many early personal computers such the Osborne 1, TRS-80, and Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and it is still used in embedded systems and TI graphing calculators.
Is it safe to „let it crash”?If something gets out of control, why not just “let it crash”? If you think about critical parts of the infrastructure or critical systems like planes, trains or nuclear reactors – well, obviously you can’t.
How i sent 300k emails through Github’s API in a matter of minutesThis is meant as a cautionary tale about using Github’s API on a repository with quite a few watchers (460 in this case). Earlier this year we migrated our code from Google Code to Github. We didn’t have a good migration plan for the 1200 or so issues back then, so we kept them on Google Code.
We don’t do code reviews to improve the codeShort piece on an interesting discussion at a customer yesterday: we are testing what I call “AA” (as in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings) code reviews meetings with the team. Those are for developers only (no non-developer is present), and anyone can bring a piece of code he wrote:
Process and Threads for BeginnersYou write a java program and save it as abcd.java and run it with java abcd. While this program is executing it is a process. File abcd.java is not a process, but when it's executing it is a process. You write a Python program and save it as abcd.py and run it with python abcd.py.
Using Logs EffectivelyKeeping customers happy is crucial and one way to do this is to keep our services available 100% of the time. Failing this we need to be able to fix any problems as quickly as possible to prevent disruption to their business.
Convert html to pdf using webkit (qtwebkit)Simple shell utility to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and qt.
WCF Services and Large ResponsesThere's plenty of help online on how to configure your WCF services. Good luck finding the 'right' answer - it took me hours of searching to finally find the answer that fixed my problem. Hopefully this will help you get there more quickly than I did.
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.