SQLite4 is an alternative, not a replacement, for SQLite3. SQLite3 is not going away. SQLite3 and SQLite4 will be supported in parallel. The SQLite3 legacy will not be abandoned. SQLite3 will continue to be maintained and improved.
How Emulators WorkThe following 17 slides constitute an Ignite talk given at deviantART's technology team meetup in France, earlier this month.
MySQL is bazillion times faster than MemSQLI don’t like stupid benchmarks, as they waste my time. I don’t like stupid marketing, as it wastes my time too. Sometimes I succumb to those things, and now in return I want to waste your time a bit.
How much should I refactor?The Rails community has been abuzz with object-oriented programming, SOLID principles, laws, design patterns, and other principles, practices, and patterns. We’ve (re)discovered new tools and techniques to separate and reuse logic, making code easier to test, understand, and maintain.
1 - Sokoban - Haskell Live CodingLive coding of the game Sokoban in Haskell. Unscripted, unedited, uncut. Watch Part 2 - The GUI - here (http://youtu.be/UashNDejcHo) You can find the code of...
ZeroMQ: Disconnects are Good for YouIf you walk over to the ZeroMQ website you will find an example of the / socket pair. It works very similar to TCP sockets. One the one side you bind the socket to an interface and port, on the other side you connect to it. However there is one huge difference between those two.
Burning in a Module with Random Unit TestingSometimes a class or subsystem makes us uneasy; when something goes wrong in our software, we’ll immediately suspect the shady module is somehow involved. Often this code needs to be scrapped or at least refactored, but other times it’s just immature and needs to be burned in.
From the R&D lab: now offering free MongoDB 2.1 databases for your experimentsMongoLab is excited to offer free hosted databases running on MongoDB 2.1! We have been testing this new version internally and are loving the new features it offers, especially the aggregation framework and time-to-live (TTL) collections. We think you’ll love it too.
Slayer's Guide to Computer-related colleges in ChinaDisclaimer: The article below is the review of my 4-years studying in the Software Engineering College of Tongji University. It contains my complaints and satires that may lead to discomfort. Anyway it may not match experiences of others, so be wise when reading it.
Cool URIs don't changeCool URIs don't change What makes a cool URI? A cool URI is one which does not change. What sorts of URI change?URIs don't change: people change them. There are no reasons at all in theory for people to change URIs (or stop maintaining documents), but millions of reasons in practice.
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.