Rob Janssen

Biculturalism

By now, Windows and Unix are functionally more similar than different.

?iPhone: What cool things can one do with an iPhone and iPad that most people don't know about?

While traveling abroad, you can use Google Maps as a free GPS without an international data plan by making use of it's hidden offline maps feature.

Entity Framework and slow bulk INSERTs

I’ve been working on an internal project where I needed to load up a large amount of records into a database for testing. On this project I’m using Entity Framework Code First 6.

Deadlocks in Practice: Don’t Hold Locks While Notifying

In this post: a subtle way that reactive/event-based code can deadlock, how it affects ReactiveCocoa (obj-c) and Reactive Extensions (.Net), and ways to work around the problem. Today I noticed that ReactiveCocoa, the Objective-C port of .

The Future of JavaScript MVC Frameworks

We've known this for some time over here in the ClojureScript corner of the world - all of our collections are immutable and modeled directly on the original Clojure versions written in Java.

Entity Framework

With the latest major release of Entity Framework, EF6, the Microsoft object-relational mapping (ORM) tool has reached new heights of “ninja-ness.” It’s no longer the country cousin to long-established .NET ORM tools. EF is all grown up, and it’s winning over former die-hards.

Code Contracts is the next coding practice you should learn and use

Last week I was presenting a session covering some practices and tooling we were using to build NDepend at BuildStuff Lithuania 2013. One of the essential practice we are using is Code Contracts and really I was surprised when I asked who was using Code Contracts in the audience.

Data Structure Visualization

Don’t jump the SQL ship just yet

The SQL language has been evolving steadily over the last two decades.

Attack of the logs! Consider building a smarter log handler

When it comes to firefighting almost any software issue, logs are essential (and here’s a great story about that).

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.