So after I had successfully extended this application with the requested functionality, they gave me the task to fully maintain the application. This was of course not a problem, or so I thought.
ConEmu - The Windows Terminal/Console/Prompt we've been waiting for?I have long sung the praises of Console2, an alternative Windows Command Prompt. In fact, I declared in 2004 that Windows was (and is) missing the boat when it comes to Text Mode. A kick ass terminal is exactly what Windows needs.
JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Part 2 - Madness or just Insanity?UPDATE: Check out the Podcast I did with Erik Meijer on Hanselminutes this week on this very topic: JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Semantic Markup is Dead! Clean vs. Machine-coded HTML.
A Tale Of Two Pwnies (Part 2)When we wrapped up our recent Pwnium event, we praised the creativity of the submissions and resolved to provide write-ups on how the two exploits worked.
Security flaw in MySQL, MariaDB allows access with any password—just keep submitting itWhen the latest release of MariaDB was announced in April by MontyProgram AB founder and MySQL creator Michael "Monty" Widenius, it came with a warning from Widenius that a severe security bug had been discovered in previous versions of both MariaDB and MySQL.
What’s to love about C?Antiquated, clunky, and unsafe. Though beloved to some, C is a language that many choose to hate. The mass opinion is indeed so negative it’s hard to believe that anybody would program anything in C. Yet they do. In fact a lot of things, even new things, are programmed in C.
Actor-Based Programming with C# 5.0 and PostSharp Threading ToolkitLast week, we announced the pre-release of PostSharp Threading Toolkit, a library of aspects implementing best-practice patterns of multithreaded applications. The toolkit is available on NuGet and its source code is hosted on GitHub.
Transactional Memory Everywhere: HTM and Cache GeometryThe previous post described some potential pitfalls in blindly applying hardware lock elision to legacy software. This post looks instead at how changes in CPU cache geometry have increased hardware transactional memory's (HTM's) cache footprint, at least from a theoretical standpoint.
Don't Get Me StartedMicrosoft recently extended “It Just Works” compatibility for Visual Basic 6 applications through the full lifetime of Windows 8 (see this month’s Editor’s Note, “Old Soldiers Never Die”).
ThoughtsDynamic Optimisation covers a set of techniques used to optimise a piece of code at runtime based on the dynamic state and path through the code so far.
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.