Rob Janssen (RobIII)

Environmental Config Transforms, Part 1

Configuration file transforms have been around for quite a while and most companies use them to generate different config files for each environment but Visual Studio does not really support the functionality most companies need.

C# OAuth 2.0 & Google API

INFSOTA [State of the Art] C# OAuth 2.0 & Google API Faroek Rodjan Introductie Google heeft vele API’s beschikbaar gesteld voor developers. Deze API’s vereisen een vorm van autorisatie voordat er aanvragen ingediend kunnen worden. Google gebruikt de OAuth 2.0 protocol hiervoor.

Livin' on the edge: Netflix edge architecture

Life on the edge is innovating a system that is ultimately responsible for 1/3 of all internet bandwidth usage in the US, and Adrian Cole is going to tell yo...

Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, Luke Hoban: TypeScript 0.9 - Generics and More

Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us again for a conversation about TypeScript. What have they learned since TypeScript first became available in preview form? How are folks using it? What's the feedback been? Today, we're pleased to announce the arrival of TypeScript version 0.9.

Unfathomable Bugs #6: Pretend Precision

Today’s bug comes courtesy of Apple. Thank you, Apple, this series wouldn’t exist without the generous support of entities like you. It’s Friday evening. Me and my coworker Jazz are sitting at my desk.

Hidden Code Mines

Code is unforgiving. As the reasonable human beings that we are, when we review code we both know what the author intends. But computers can’t wait to Well, Actually all over that code like a lonely Hacker News commenter: Well Actually, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.

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Getting rid of binary strings, part 1

Every programmer is used to manipulating data at the byte level, but most rarely, if ever, have to directly manipulate bits. When such a situation arises, the “obvious” way to do it is to use binary strings, that is, strings of ones and zeroes.

Google I/O 2012 - SQL vs NoSQL: Battle of the Backends

Ken Ashcraft, Alfred Fuller Google App Engine now offers both SQL and NoSQL data storage -- but which is right for your application? Advocates of each try to...

How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one

Update (June 21): this article has been published at embeddedrelated.com, where I hope to publish a follow-up soon. Today, pretty much everyone has a CPU, a DSP and a GPU, buried somewhere in their PC, phone, car, etc. Most don't know or care that they bought any of these, but they did.