For as long as I can remember, I've been a fan of Saturday Night Live and improvisational theater. Improv looks chaotic and uncontrolled, but the best practitioners operate under strict rules that govern interactions between players.
Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDBRed Hat will switch the default database in its enterprise distribution, RHEL, from MySQL to MariaDB, when version 7 is released. According to news from the Red Hat summit which concludes in Boston on Friday, RHEL 7 will also include MongoDB.
Content Security PolicyA relatively new feature in browsers, Content Security Policy is a tool that protects your web application against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities...
Stop Doing Internet Wrong.Some days...some days it's frustrating to be on the web. We're compiling C++ into JavaScript and running Unreal in the browser but at the same time, here in 2013, we're still making the same mistakes.
8 months in Microsoft, I learned theseTwo years ago today, I started Microsoft Windows Azure as an intern, in the very same team I joined right after college and I am working for last 8 months. I decided to summarize a few points I learned so far in this job during last 8 months.
Matter, Anti-Matter, and the Unified Theory of Garbage CollectionIntroduced in 1960 by John McCarthy and George Collins respectively, tracing and reference counting are both forms of the type of automatic memory management known as garbage collection (GC).
The Code You Don't WriteI used to get a huge feeling of satisfaction from a weekend spent working on a clever hack. I would spend serious effort making something run twice as quickly, even when there wasn't a problem with how quickly it was running in the first place.
Avoiding "!= null" statements in Java? - Stack OverflowI work with Java all day long. The most used idiom (code snippet) I'm programming in Java, is to test if an object != null before I use it. This is to avoid a NullPointerException. I find the code very ugly and it becomes unreadable. Is there a good alternative to avoid this code snippet?
Effectively Managing Memory at Gmail scaleWhile JavaScript employs garbage collection for automatic memory management, it is not a substitute for effective memory management in applications.
Secrets of the Browser Developer ToolsGeneral hints and tips that don't fall in to any category. Improve your console skills to find out more about your site or app.
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.