The NOLOCK hint: we all use it sometimes, and some of us use it almost all the time. In this session Kendra Little shows three phenomena which will cause you...
Confessions of an ex-developerMarco Arment’s response to a piece by Ed Finkler on Ed’s diminishing motivation to learn new technologies interested me. I’m in an intriguing position on this subject, because I’m not a developer anymore. I haven’t launched Xcode since last December.
A Decentralized API to Personal InformationAn idea hit me: email is such a pervasive tool used by so many people and supported by so many software stacks that it is the ultimate vendor-neutral platform to build programmatic services between applications and persons: automatic exchange of contact information, PGP key, Bitcoin address, autom
2014-07-09Finding All the Red M&Ms: A Story of Indexes and Full-Table ScansIn this guest post, Chris Saxon explains a very important topic using an analogy with chocolates: When does a database use an index and when is it better not using it. Although Chris explanation has the Oracle database in mind, the principles apply to other databases too.
Keep Calm and Take a BreakAs a developer for a mobile charge capture company, I am blessed with some unique access to the medical industry.
Zero downtime database migrationsAll developers will at some time or other have to deploy code that changes the structure of a database. You might have downtime during these deploys due to database changes being required by the new code that you just deployed.
HTML5DevConf: Raw WebGLNick Desaulniers - Raw WebGLTime: 10:40am - 11:30am | Room: Pacific D&Khttp://html5devconf.com #HTML5DevConfNew web developers have trouble distinguishing jQuery from JavaScript. We frequently point developers to three.js for doing 3D on the web, but what is raw WebGL and what tools do we have f
The Great Works of SoftwareIs it possible to propose a software canon? To enumerate great works of software that are deeply influential—that changed the nature of the code that followed? Canons emerge over time, as certain works gain in critical appreciation. But software is mutable stuff, quick to obsolesce.
Why I connected my Coffee Machine to the internet — MediumAs a child it wouldn’t be an uncommon sight to see me taking things apart in an attempt to try to understand how things worked, this was usually to my parents disliking as I rarely managed to reconstruct the appliance.
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.