Rob Janssen

The Codist

The game company I worked for until recently has a Mac/PC FPS wargame MMO which features myriads of physically modeled vehicles such as tanks, trucks, planes and boats.

The State Of HTML5 Video

HTML5 has entered the online video market, which is both exciting and challenging for developers in the industry.

What’s New in Entity Framework 5.0?

In the world of Object Relational Mappers, there is one topic that have always been on the table: Performance. We have automatic configuration, generation and mapping.

I Am a Bad Software Developer

The last four months of my life have been spent in the pursuit of getting to know myself better. It all started about seven months ago when I was working at a job I didn't hate but I wasn't happy at.

Shadowcasting in C#, Part One

I've always loved the "roguelike" games; perhaps you've played some of them. Those are the games where you get a top-down view of a tile-based world, and have as much real time as you like to make a choice of action.

What Is Time? Determinism, Quantum Physics, Consciousness, Information, Free Will, Causality...

Resolution: optimized for 640 x 360 (16:9 SD) http://crackingthenutshell.com/what-is-time/ Welcome to Cracking the Nutshell! In this video, I discuss the nat...

The End of Space and Time? - Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf

Robbert Dijkgraaf's focus is on string theory, quantum gravity, and the interface between mathematics and particle physics, bringing them together in an acce...

Beautiful Equations (BBC)

Artist and writer Matt Collings takes the plunge into an alien world of equations. He asks top scientists to help him understand five of the most famous equa...

Are certificates really worth it ?

I wanted to write something on the topic long time ago. Simply because I have read and I have seen too many developers arguing, most of them convinced that getting a certificate is not worth the time, money and effort spent.

Circumventing C#'s Type Constraint Limitations

It's well known that C# doesn't permit certain types to appear as constraints, like System.Enum or System.Delegate, and that C# further prevents sealed classes from appearing as constraints.

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.