Rob Janssen

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How I coded in 1985

Back in 1985 I worked on the computerization of a machine designed to stick labels on bottles. The company that made the machines was using electromechanical controls to spool labels off a reel and onto products (such as bottles of shampoo) passing by on a conveyor.

Programming is not easy

In the past few years, there has been something of a boom in “learn to code” sites, movements, organizations, businesses, etc. Many promise that programming is simply not as hard as people tend to think, and that virtually anyone can become a programmer, within mere months, or even weeks.

ChubMarine

Press "p" to toggle drawing of points. Press "s" to toggle drawing of springs. Press "f" to toggle creating points that are fixed in space. Press "u" to pause. Press "=" to increase the spring size. Press "-" to decrease the spring size. Press "delete" to delete all the springs and points.

Memoization

Don Syme blogged this quite some years ago but it just came up in a design review on my team this afternoon and it bears repeating. This generic function takes a function and returns a new caching version of it. So simple!

How Software Developers Really Spend Their Time – ReadWrite

And you thought being a software engineer was all about dreaming up clever algorithms or amazing graphics routines and then instantiating them in elegant, tightly written code. Shows what you know.

.Net Implementation of a Priority Queue (aka Heap)

Priority Queues with C#

A priority queue assigns a priority to each element. Knowing how to build them is important in solving many coding problems. A priority queue is a data structure that holds information that has some sort of priority value.

jQuery Annotated Source

Read the jQuery (1.6) source like a book like a boss. View project on GitHub.

Gossip networks

In this article we would like to present a Java implementation of a Gossip clustering framework. The library is being developed as a personal project of the author. The framework is based on a protocol that is inspired by gossiping.

Understanding .NET Using Read-Only Collections

Even if you're not working in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, .NET provides you with a way to create a read-only collection or to convert an existing List into a read-only collection.

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.