Rob Janssen

New Interview Questions for Senior Software Engineers

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GeeCON 2012: Kevlin Henney - Cool Code

Conference closing keynote In most disciplines built on skill and knowledge, from art to architecture, from creative writing to structural engineering, there is a strong emphasis on studying existing work. Exemplary pieces from past and present are examined and discussed in order to provoke think

Attack of the Cosmic Rays! (Ksplice Blog)

It's a well-documented fact that RAM in modern computers is susceptible to occasional random bit flips due to various sources of noise, most commonly high-energy cosmic rays.

Brainfuck beware: JavaScript is after you!

tl;dr I just made a tool to transform any javascript code into an equivalent sequence of (){}{}!+ characters. You can try it here, or grab it from github or npm. Keep on reading if you want to know how it works. What do you know about non-alphanumeric XSS?

How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours

More precisely, I crawled 250,113,669 pages for just under 580 dollars in 39 hours and 25 minutes, using 20 Amazon EC2 machine instances.

IAmAn Operating Room Nurse at a major medical center in the US. I've seen and done shit that makes "Saw" look like "Sesame Street." AMAA.

IAmAn Operating Room Nurse at a major medical center in the US. I've seen and done shit that makes "Saw" look like "Sesame Street." AMAA. (self.IAmA)

The Unit Of Work Pattern And Persistence Ignorance

Jeremy Miller Contents The Unit of Work PatternUsing the Unit of WorkPersistence IgnoranceCan the Business Logic Run Independently of the Database?Can I Design My Domain Model Independently from the Database Model?How Does My Persistence Strategy Affect My Business Logic?More Units of Work I

C#/.NET Little Wonders: Select() and Where() with Indexes

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.

C#/.NET Little Wonders: Tuples and Tuple Factory Methods

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can really help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain.  This week, we look at the System.

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