So you accidentally committed a password or API key to Github. Ouch. Just today, I saw a great article detailing one developer’s experience with committing sensitive information to Github. Unfortunately, this article missed the main point.
the origin of the <blink> tagI am widely credited as the inventor of the <blink> tag. For those of you who are relatively new to the Web, the <blink> tag is an HTML command that causes text to blink, and many, many people find its behavior to be extremely annoying.
My $2375 Amazon EC2 MistakeOver the holidays, I opted to try to teach myself Ruby & its companion Rails. Turns out, there are a great resources scattered about the web that can really help you drill down into rails and learn the nitty gritty details of how it all works.
Bertolami.comCompression is the process of reducing the storage space requirement for a set of data by converting it into a more compact form than its original format. This concept of data compression is fairly old, dating at least as far back as the mid 19th century, with the invention of Morse Code.
Avoiding ping pongWhat's the advantage? You won't get scaling for much longer, and current trends are actually for lower power anyway.
Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation MeasuresSome of you may remember a series of peculiar Game Boy Advance games that came out over the course of 2004.
Contino | Microservices Are Not a free lunch! - ContinoMicroservices are a style of software architecture that involves delivering systems as a set of very small, granular, independent collaborating services.
How to Implement Color SearchWe have just launched a theme store for our users and we wanted to make it easy to find themes by color. When you are looking for a suitable web form design theme to match your website design, searching based on colors simplifies the process.
2d VisibilityThis algorithm can also calculate what areas are lit given a light source. Run once per light, we can build a light map showing which areas are lit up. What if we put 24 lights into the above maze? See the light map. The roguelike community has collected several algorithms, especially for grids.
The Performance Cost of Integer Overflow CheckingHow much overhead should we expect from enabling integer overflow checks? Using a compiler flag or built-in intrinsics, we should be able to do the check with a conditional branch that branches based on the overflow flag that add and sub set. Code that looks like
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.