Over the last few months there have been several blog posts looking at GC pauses in different programming languages or runtimes.
What .NET Developers ought to know to start in 2017Many many years ago I wrote a blog post about what .NET Developers ought to know. Unfortunately what was just a list of questions was abused by recruiters and others who used it as a harsh litmus test. There's a lot going on in the .
Async HTTP API and service busIt’s been a few months already since I’ve started working for good with distributed systems using (micro)services and asynchronous processing via service bus.
Features In Computer Languages, Clarity Is KeyIN THE FALL OF 1996, Brian Kernighan *69 brought scissors, a beard trimmer, and a pair of hedge clippers into the auditorium where he was teaching Harvard’s introductory computer science course, CS50, to more than 450 students.
What's New In HTML 5.1 -- 14 Added Features and How To Use Them - RankRedStack Overflow – like most online communities I've studied – naturally trends toward increased strictness over time.
Amiga Story | Nostalgia NerdWhat goes up, must come down... Welcome to the story of the Commodore Amiga. This is part 1 of a 2 part documentary exploring the history and story of the mighty Amiga from its conception through to its buyout by Commodore. This episode deals with the "up" part of the story, and takes place during t
Progress Bars are Surprisingly DifficultWe've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last 30 seconds. Or the reverse, where a once speedy bar takes 50% of the time covering the last few pixels. And bars that occasionally jump backward in time are not the rarity you'd expect them to be.
Date Math In The WHERE Clause - Brent Ozar Unlimited®Here's a little benchmark program that measures how long it takes to calloc a 1 gibibyte buffer versus malloc+memset a 1 gibibyte buffer. (Make sure you compile without optimization, because modern compilers are clever enough to know that free(calloc(...
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.