Rob Janssen

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The RTW-Disease

RTW or Reinvent-The-Wheel is pain anywhere in the region of the head . It can be a symptom of a number of different conditions of the head. RTW can result from a wide range of causes both benign and more serious. RTW, though, is a non-specific symptom, which means that it has many possible causes.

Guillermo Schwarz's answer to What are the best-kept secrets of great programmers?

If I told you then I would have to kill you. 0. Everything can be done with hashmaps.

As sites move to SHA2 encryption, millions face HTTPS lock-out

In 2016, tens of millions of people around the world will face trouble accessing some of the most common encrypted websites like Facebook, Google and Gmail, Twitter, and Microsoft sites. Why? Because their browser or device will be unable to read the new, more secure certificates.

OAuth Has Ruined Everything

OAuth Sucks. I’m probably not telling you something that you don’t already know. If you’ve ever had to setup authentication to one (or heaven forbid) multiple authentication providers (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

A new stackalloc operator for reference types with CoreCLR and Roslyn

Source code is now available on github Udpdated 9 Oct 2015: Added a section about the this and transient safe problem In the sequel of my previous post adding struct inheritance to C# with CoreCLR and Roslyn, I would like to share here a proposal and a prototype for a new stackalloc operator to

<input> I ? you, but you're bringing me down

Some people build furniture. Some people knit. Some people have hobbies that don't involve HTML specs from the 90s. I am not those people. So here's a story about <input>, how it got to be the jerk that it is, and why it needs to die in a fire. 1995 was a good year.

seriot.ch/resources/talks_papers/20151022_time_and_computers_softshake.pdf

Unit Testing MVC6 and EntityFramework 7 with xUnit

Unit testing along with Test Driven Development (TDD) have become increasingly common in recent years throughout the software development community, and MVC is no exception to this trend.

TypeScript is pretty good — Medium

TLDR: A column about how TypeScript is pretty good, compared to ES6.

Search For Intelligent Aliens Near Bizarre Dimming Star Has Begun

The search for signs of life in a mysterious star system hypothesized to potentially harbor an "alien megastructure" is now underway.

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