Rob Janssen

The Codist

Do You Really Want To Be Doing This at 50? No, it's a stupid person's game (sure it's mostly men, but not 100%). I'm 55 and have been coding professionally since 1981 and started in school in 1973 or so. One thing I've learned for sure is that coding yourself to death is not worth it in the end.

Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing TypeScript

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Welcome to TypeScript

TypeScript lets you write JavaScript the way you really want to. TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. Any browser. Any host. Any OS. Open Source.

Programming Language: Objective CorporateSpeak++

Inspired by the constant corporate speak I have had the pleasure of hearing, I have undertaken the arduos task of developing the next generation of programming language: Objective CorporateSpeak++ In this essay, I will demonstrate the usage of some of the programming idioms: ClassesValue-Added Cla

Five Myths about Hash Tables

A hash table is data structure that is used to search for exact matches to a search key.

INotifyPropertyChanged, the Anders Hejlsberg Way

Back in September I was watching the Build session that Anders Hejlsberg was giving on the Future directions for C# and Visual Basic and something small but interesting stood out to me in the demo code he used.

Anders Hejlsberg Is Right: You Cannot Maintain Large Programs In JavaScript

Erik Meijer: Are you saying you cannot write large programs in JavaScript? Anders Hejlsberg: No, you can write large programs in JavaScript. You just can’t maintain them.

How can I enumerate thee? Let me count the ways...

This weekend, I was writing some demo code for the async chapter of C# in Depth - the idea was to decompile a simple asynchronous method and see what happened. I received quite a surprise during this, in a way which had nothing to do with asynchrony.

Designing for PCs that boot faster than ever before

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Scaling up is hard: big hardware gets expensive fast. Scaling out is equally difficult; interesting design problems creep in to scale out solutions. One of the more troublesome issues architects face when scaling out is the issue of distributing identity.

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.

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