The abstract of Glauber Costa's talk at LinuxCon Europe 2012 started with the humorous note "I once heard that hypervisors are the living proof of operating system's incompetence".
documentationOK, so the application worked fine with 1 route and now we have 10, how is that better? Well, in some aspects these routes work better (more on that follows), but the point I was trying to make here is how easy it is to start using MvcCodeRouting.
Daylight saving time and Timezone best practicesMany systems are dependent on keeping accurate time, the problem is with changes to time due to daylight savings - moving the clock forward or backwards.
Gadget LabYou have a secret that can ruin your life. It’s not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you’re careless, 16 if you’re cautious—that can reveal everything about you.
FizzBuzz Still WorksI recently interviewed some programmers for a couple of available positions at CTS, the startup crazy enough to take me as its CTO.
Why Averages Suck and Percentiles are Great about : performanceAnyone that ever monitored or analyzed an application uses or has used averages. They are simple to understand and calculate. We tend to ignore just how wrong the picture is that averages paint of the world.
Message-Oriented ProgrammingI just finished a project that used a Kinect’s computer vision tools to gather information about people nearby, then communicate with other hardware to adjust the environment. (Vagueness due to NDA.
Quotes from the Nato Software Engineering Conference in 1968Sometimes we forget that other people have faced the same problems we face today in software development. These quotes are from the proceedings of the Nato Software Engineering conference in 1968.
Death by Million CubesI was really looking forward to that game. Not because I find it an interesting game — far from it. I was looking forward to it because there are two things in life that I find more interesting than anything else: technology and human behavior.
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.