Rob Janssen

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Taking PHP Seriously

Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you?

Why is Apache Vulnerable by Default?

Apache is the most popular web server on Earth, with a market share of 46.4%?—?well above Nginx (21.8%) and Microsoft IIS (9.8%). Thanks to Linux package managers like Yum and APT you can install and get it up and running in minutes.

Toggl - Free Time Tracking Software

How it feels to learn Javascript in 2016

The following is inspired by the article “It’s the future” from Circle CI. You can read the original here. This piece is just an opinion, and like any JavaScript framework, it shouldn’t be taken too seriously. No JavaScript frameworks were created during the writing of this article.

PC-Retro IBM Clone

Obviously, this is a project for an advanced electronic hobbyist and computer enthusiast. The computer is supplied with the 'ANONYMOUS' BIOS operating system and 64K of memory. We also have added IC sockets for all chips, knowing this is a huge hobbyist advantage, despite the additional cost.

MhAllan/TcpServiceCore

Service Framework for .

Upgrade your SSH keys!

Whether you're a software developer or a sysadmin, I bet you're using SSH keys. Pushing your commits to Github or managing your Unix systems, it's best practice to do this over SSH with public key authentication rather than passwords.

Microservice Pipeline Architecture (Tim Perry) - Full Stack Fest 2016

Microservices are an exciting idea, but it’s hard to see how to put them into practice until you’ve seen them in the real world. In this talk we’ll see a real-world microservice architecture, looking at the content pipeline behind BBC Newsbeat.About the speaker:Tim Perry is a tech lead and the

The Silver Bullet Syndrome : Hadi Hariri

We love our silver bullets don’t we? Constantly chasing the dream that the next big thing will solve all our past problems. It doesn’t matter if it’s a language, framework, platform or library, we’re out there chasing it. Why? Well because it’s going to solve our needs, it’s going to sol

Increasing image resolution using a neural network

CSI, here we come! There is also another approach to super resolution, applicable to videos: instead of making stuff up (like here, where upsized faces look like very different people), use information from nearby video frames.

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