Rob Janssen

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Feature Branch Workflow

Transitioning to a distributed version control system may seem like a daunting task, but you don’t have to change your existing workflow to take advantage of Git. Your team can develop projects in the exact same way as they do with Subversion.

You're probably wrong about caching

The poor, misunderstood innerText — Perfection Kills

Seven Microservices Anti-patterns

Biggest image in the smallest space

What’s the biggest pixel size of a PNG image in the smallest number of bytes? I wanted to try to create an image that could be downloaded but whose pixel buffer would be too big to store in the RAM of a PC. Here is a bzip2 file of 420 bytes that uncompresses to a PNG image of 6,132,534 bytes (5.

Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site [Updated]

When hacker group Impact Team released the Ashley Madison data, they asserted that “thousands” of the women’s profiles were fake. Later, this number got blown up in news stories that asserted “90-95%” of them were fake, though nobody put forth any evidence for such an enormous number.

Ashley Madison Code Shows More Women, and More Bots

After searching through the Ashley Madison database and private email last week, I reported that there might be roughly 12,000 real women active on Ashley Madison.

Why We Killed A $150,000 Feature

Get the new iPhone app from Trakio to allow you to see every customer metric from all of your favourite SaaS tools. I can’t tell if he wants to laugh, cry or punch me. His emotions right now are about the same as mine were 5 hours ago. I’ve been up for 39 hours.

Nullable comparisons are weird

One of the C# oddities I noted in my recent article was that I find it odd that creating a numeric type with less-than, greater-than, and similar operators requires implementing a lot of redundant methods, methods whose values could be deduced by simply implementing a comparator.

Top 15 Hidden Features of C#

I have been keen on the elegance and beauty of the C# language since I wrote my first lines of C# code. I read different articles and books about it, always when I have free time. Here I am going to share with you dozens of my favorite hidden features of C# (or exotic).

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.