Rob Janssen

Jurassic Park: Trespasser CG Source Code Review

Standing alone, those numbers don't mean much. But comparing them to others games (Quake,Doom,Duke3D,...) helps a lot: The volume of code is twice more than other titles released at the same time. The volume is very representative of the complexity of the engine and the collosal scope of features.

Bounce.js

Bounce.js uses CSS3 animations and transforms, which doesn't seem to be supported by your browser.

Call me maybe: RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ is a distributed message queue, and is probably the most popular open-source implementation of the AMQP messaging protocol. It supports a wealth of durability, routing, and fanout strategies, and combines excellent documentation with well-designed protocol extensions.

Animate.css

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Heisenberg Developers

TL:DR You can not observe a developer without altering their behavior. First a story.

Searching 20 GB/sec: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms

TL;DR: Four years ago, I left Google with the idea for a new kind of server monitoring tool. The idea was to combine traditionally separate functions such as log exploration, log aggregation and analysis, metrics gathering, alerting, and dashboard generation into a single service.

Version control: best practices

Version control is something that every shipping team uses, but there’s not a lot of talking about the right way to do it. Used properly it can improve your code culture and help you move faster. Let’s dive into some best practices for Version Control and the workflow we use here at Rainforest.

The Hamburger Icon

When common practices and trends should be questioned.Whether you want to call it a hamburger, navigation or menu icon, that dear little thing looks like it’s here to stay. It’s our own fault, we created it.We try to question its use, some have even gone as far as to test it.

Cancelling an async HTTP request Task sends TCP RESET packet

Jon Skeet: Coding Blog

Anti-pattern: parallel collections (Note that I'm not talking about "processing collections in parallel, which is definitely not an anti-pattern...) I figured it was worth starting to blog about anti-patterns I see frequently on Stack Overflow.

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.