Rob Janssen

Styling And Animating SVGs With CSS

CSS can be used to style and animate scalable vector graphics, much like it is used to style and animate HTML elements.

How Long Does An ID Need To Be?

When working with distributed systems, sequential IDs are not always an option. GUIDs are commonly used, but they’re unnecessarily long. How long do randomly generated IDs really need to be? An ID is a unique identifier for a record in a database.

64 thoughts on “jQuery 3.0: The Next Generations”

It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly eight years since jQuery was released. Web development has changed a lot over the years, and jQuery has changed along with it.

What Does an Idle CPU Do?

In the last post I said the fundamental axiom of OS behavior is that at any given time, exactly one and only one task is active on a CPU. But if there’s absolutely nothing to do, then what?

BREAKING: NoSQL just “huge text file and grep”, study finds

BREAKING NEWS: a study by the institute for distributed investigation of technologies (IDIOT) has found that all NoSQL technologies are essentially just a massive text file combined with the UNIX tool ‘grep’ NoSQL has risen in popularity in recent years as a hipster alternative to relational da

Introducing osquery

Maintaining real-time insight into the current state of your infrastructure is important. At Facebook, we've been working on a framework called osquery which attempts to approach the concept of low-level operating system monitoring a little differently.

osquery

What is osquery? With osquery, you can use SQL to query low-level operating system information. Under the hood, instead of querying static tables, these queries dynamically execute high-performance native code. The results of the SQL query are transparently returned to you quickly and easily.

Have the Angular Team lost their marbles?

I’ve posted before that I’m not a big fan of frameworks like Angular.

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Favorite Relational Database

Last week we conducted a small research in the form of a poll: "What is your favorite RDBMS?". The poll received more responses than anticipated – a little bit over 900 votes were submitted. The topic in question can induce flame wars, but this time it passed without major incidents.

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.