In On learning InnoDB: A journey to the core, I introduced the innodb_diagrams project to document the InnoDB internals, which provides the diagrams used in this post. (Note that each image below is linked to a higher resolution version of the same image.)
How to Fold a Julia Fractal — Acko.netIn visualizing complex waves, we've seen functions that map real numbers to complex numbers, and back again. These can be graphed easily in 3D diagrams, from $ \mathbb{R} $ to $ \mathbb{C} $ or vice-versa. You cross 1 real dimension with the 2 dimensions of the complex plane.
Robust Software / LoggingI don’t know if it was just my experience but little to no emphasis was put on logging aside from handling exceptions. In the .NET world this boiled down to adding ELMAH to your project and then forgetting about it, with Rails it meant having nothing but the logs that you got out of the box.
Jon Berry, a veteran Windows engineer, digs into the new way Windows 8 manages processes to support the brave new world of Windows running on various CPU architectures including ARM and ATOM, which present an interesting set of technical challenges given the need to aggressively preserve energy when running
Mitigate The Billion Dollar Mistake with AspectsI call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. At that time, I was designing the first comprehensive type system for references in an object oriented language (ALGOL W).
JSON: The JavaScript subset that isn'tWritten by Magnus Holm. JSON was based on a subset of the JavaScript scripting language.
HTML5 Showcase for Web Developers: The Wow and the HowAllow me a rant on technical documentation. This has been bugging me lately, and I thought I’d lessen the irritation by inflicting it on you. The stereotype is that technical people are bad at writing documentation.
Circumventing Windows RT’s Code Integrity MechanismIt’s taken longer than expected but it has finally happened: unsigned desktop applications run on Windows RT. Ironically, a vulnerability in the Windows kernel that has existed for some time and got ported to ARM just like the rest of Windows made this possible.
Retrospective on TFS 2012 Update 1In late November I made a tour of a few cities in Europe, speaking about VS/TFS 2012 and application lifecycle management. One of the talks I gave a couple of times was about how we are managing our new release cadence.
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.