Rob Janssen

The Deep Insights of Alan Kay

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. But for the unfamiliar, Alan has one of the most illustrious careers in computer science who’s been awarded both a Kyoto Prize and a Turing award for his work on Object Oriented Programming.

Sol — a sunny little virtual machine — Rasmus Andersson

During this weekend, together with a few evenings earlier this week, I created a rather simple virtual machine dubbed “Sol”, after the Swedish word for “sun”.

inaka / Don't Under-Think It : SQL vs NoSQL

Technical debt is the cost, in developer time or money, of a line of code due to poor engineering, sloppy programming, or cutting corners. It's everywhere in the technology world. I'm often asked to come in and solve problems due to massive technical debt.

Being a Remote Worker Sucks - Long Live the Remote Worker

I've been a 100% remote worker at Microsoft for just about 5 years now. My last two jobs were both 7 year long gigs, so this isn't the longest I've worked somewhere, but clocking in at a half-decade, it's the longest I've worked remotely.

Developers Guide to Images

I’ve regularly received questions from developer friends who are a bit baffled with images and the somewhat confusing formats. I’ve also heard from various developers that they hate receiving a PSD with no instructions and having to wade through the overwhelming options of Photoshop.

Charles

Microsoft Technical Fellow and C# creator Anders Hejlsberg explains the new C# and VB.NET asynchronous programming model, available as Async CTP now, which makes async programming much easier for .NET developers.

Gaurav Sharma, To SQL or NoSQL, that is the Question

Just finished reading NoSQL Distilled by Martin Fowler and Pramod Sadalage. It’s an easy-going read, doesn’t bog down the reader in technical details, and admirably addressed some lingering questions/uncertainties I had regarding the use of database technologies for F6.

Building a custom lexer

As a software engineer I spend all day (hopefully) writing code. I love code and I love that there are languages that help me solve problems and create solutions.

10 Object Oriented Design Principles Java Programmer should know

Object Oriented Design Principles are core of OOPS programming, but I have seen most of Java programmer chasing design patterns like Singleton pattern , Decorator pattern or Observer pattern , and not putting enough attention on learning Object oriented analysis and design.

Aptiverse.com

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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.