Rob Janssen

Tragedy of the Common Library

Good intentions can go awry quickly in the world of software development. Imagine this common scenario: there are multiple teams building related projects at the same company.

5 Years of Stackoverflow.com · Not Rocket Science

On , Jeff Atwood asked for help naming his little project. On April 16, he announced StackOverflow.com. On September 16, it launched. (What’s the obsession with the number 6, Jeff?). In between, beta access was granted to people.

Entity Framework Power Tool Tips to View Model (A Feature I Depend On!)

When defining models with Entity Framework’s Code First and a DbContext class, I find the “View Model” feature of the Entity Framework Power Tool completely indispensable.

HTML5 Tools

SemVer 2.0 Released

One of the side projects I’ve been working on lately is helping to shepherd the Semantic Versioning specification (SemVer) along to its 2.0.0 release. I want to thank everyone who sent pull requests and engaged in thoughtful, critical, spirited feedback about the spec.

An Immutable Data Service

Web based data services provide a means of storing and reading data over HTTP. The core value of these services is that they make data operations both accessible and available to clients such as web and phone applications.

List of 50+ Face Detection / Recognition APIs, libraries, and software

There has been a lot of buzz around Face Recognition since Google Glass was announced.  We believe that face recognition will open up a ton of possibilities in how we interact not just with each other, but with objects as well - whether it’s with Glass or not.

Programmer Competency Matrix

Thanks to John Haugeland for a reformatting of it that works much more nicely on the web.

Scaling my Server

At the beginning of the project to build a large-scale targeted multi-recipient messaging server, I opted to use the simplest, most mainstream architecture possible: put everything in a RDBMS and let each web handler run queries.

Some dark corners of C - Google Drive

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.