Rob Janssen

Use Your Interface

Is a growing library of transitional interface and interaction design patterns to help you inspire and communicate your UI ideas with people. This site is managed and populated with new interactions daily by Josh Davey.

Modern Microprocessors A 90 Minute Guide!

Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right' and 'build car'. WARNING: This article is meant to be informal and fun!

MongoDB Blog

This is a guest post by Mike Chesnut, Director of Operations Engineering at Crittercism. This June, Mike will present at MongoDB World on how Crittercism scaled to 30,000 requests/second (and beyond) on MongoDB.

Reading ReimaginedTM

With ReadMe! you can enjoy e-pub format books from Project Gutenberg (45,000 books), Manybooks (29,000 titles), Feedbooks (lots), OpenLibrary (1M+ books) and the Internet Archive (2.5M+ titles). That should keep you busy for awhile! You can find the app here.

Salted Password Hashing - Doing it Right

If you're a web developer, you've probably had to make a user account system. The most important aspect of a user account system is how user passwords are protected.

Why I Write Tests?

I write software which is used to manage sensitive information. It doesn’t really matter what kind of information my software deals with. The only things that matters are Also, often the first requirement is a lot more important than the second one. It makes sense.

chhantyal/influential-programming-books · GitHub

These are books considered most influential for programmers from this StackOverflow thread. Long answer: I frequently visit above thread. Over the time, such an active thread is closed, links to book sites are removed and I have to copy/paste/search everytime I go there.

Result of a simple SQL indexing quiz: 60% fail : programming

540 points (81% like it) 699 upvotes 159 downvotes shortlink: programming subscribeunsubscribe503,401 readers 566 users here now created by speza community for 7 years message the moderators 1 539 540 541 Result of a simple SQL indexing quiz: 60% fail (use-the-index-luke.

Code reviews and bad habits

Sometimes, I feel that my career as a coder is demarcated by the tech stacks I used to write software. Partly that’s about the programming language—Smalltalk in college, C# and Python at Fog Creek—but it’s also about all the other tools you use to get the job done.

Vinyl Data

One strategy that major record companies have been employing lately to deter downloading is adding bonus computer content to new CD releases. I recently discovered that this technique is not unique to CD’s, but had in fact been practiced in the vinyl era as well.

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.