During the process of researching InnoDB’s storage formats and building the innodb_ruby and innodb_diagrams projects discussed in my series of InnoDB blog posts, Davi Arnaut and I found a number of InnoDB bugs. I thought I’d bring up a few of them, as they are fairly interesting.
Exploring the Lower Depths of TersenessWhat's surprising is how cryptic the commonly used system is. For starters, each position is identified by a number. The pitcher is 1. The center fielder 8. If the ball is hit to the shortstop who throws it to the first baseman, the sequence is 6-3.
Engineering SerendipityWHEN Yahoo banned its employees from working from home in February, the reasons it gave had less to do with productivity than serendipity.
Tail Call Improvements in .NET Framework 4First a little background reading before going into tail call improvements in CLR 4 - David Broman did an excellent job at covering the basics in his post here: . He also captured a mostly complete list of the restrictions as they stood for CLR 2 here: http://blogs.msdn.
jQuery Conference SF 2012 I .promise() to show you .when() to use Deferreds by Alex McPhersonDeferreds are a relatively new addition to jQuery, but what can they be used for beyond ajax resolutions and chaining? This talk shows 7 interesting and useful ways to make safe asynchronous JavaScript apps leveraging that mysterious object, Deferred.
Decompile EXE : How to Disassemble and Modify EXE filesAs professional developers, we create products. We implement ideas, which are usually driven from some business craving for acceptance in the global market, from their target group.
BriteSnow - HTML5 Enterprise Application Architecture1. Introduction About a week or two ago, I found myself prompting Google and other search engines with questions like, “what is the best programming language?”, “how to choose a programming language?”, “how to interpret performance benchmarks?”, et ad nauseam.
List Out of LambdaIf you ignore the practical issues of computers like size, weight, cost, heat, and so on, what do you really need in a programming language? Let’s play around with this question. To understand this post you’ll need a basic understanding of how functions in Javascript work.
The Patent Protection RacketThe fastest growing industry in the US right now, even during this time of slow economic growth, is probably the patent troll protection racket industry. Lawsuits surrounding software patents have more than tripled since 1999. It’s a great business model.
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.