Rob Janssen

LZ4 for .NET

Project Description Quadruple (Mixed Mode, C++/CLI, Unsafe and Safe) .NET implementation of LZ4 - ultra fast compression algorithm. LZ4 has been written in C by Yann Collet and original sources can be found on http://code.google.com/p/lz4/Change log: 1.0.2.

High Performance Browser Networking

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C#/.NET Little Wonders: Extension Methods Demystified

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past little wonders posts can be found here.

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20 Image Resizing Pitfalls

Dozens of articles on server-side image resizing have been written. If we count other tongues, maybe hundreds. These contributions to the community have been invaluable to me, and I truly appreciate the time each author spent to share his or her knowledge. So why am I writing another?

Enterprisey Developers, Acronyms, and Discrimination

Over the past few years my clientele shifted from a mix of mostly mid-market companies and a few startups to almost entirely startups, and that shift has resulted in a wider palette of languages requested by clients.

Dave's Data : Optimistic Cuckoo Hashing for concurrent, read-intensive applications

Why an EC2 Instance is Not a Server

At Re:Invent, the AWS conference in Vegas last November, Amazon’s CTO, Werner Vogels, made an interesting observation during his keynote address: “An EC2 instance is not a server—it’s a building block.

Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012

http://programmingisterrible.com/ A bad programmer talks about bad programming. Slides (PDF) — https://github.com/tef/emfcamp2012/raw/master/programming_is_t...

Breaking The Webs Golden Rule

The web is an amazing platform, its “design” if you can call it that is ever changing. The web works because it is “field tested” every day by millions of people. That which does not work is simply not used and that which works well spreads like wildfire.

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.