Too many programmers think SQL is a bit of a beast. It is one of the few declarative languages out there, and as such, behaves in an entirely different way from imperative, object-oriented, or even functional languages (although, some say that SQL is also somewhat functional).
HTTP/HTTPS not working inside your VM? Wait for it.Have you ever run into a problem, done some troubleshooting, but decided it only affected yourself, and shelved it for a while? I did that a couple of a months ago with a particular problem which forced its way back into my life this morning.
How your data is collected and commoditised via “free” online servicesI get a lot of people popping up with data breaches for Have I been pwned (HIBP). There’s an interesting story in that itself actually, one I must get around to writing in the future as folks come from all sorts of different backgrounds and offer up data they’ve come across in various locations.
Latency Numbers Everyone Should KnowIn a computer network, latency is defined as the amount of time it takes for a packet of data to get from one designated point to another. In more general terms, it is the amount of time between the cause and the observation of the effect.
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How Many Passes?Large bodies of code written in the C/C++ languages typically divide up the code into “header” files, which are just declarations of methods and types (and definitions of macros). The actual bodies of those methods and types are in completely different files.
Fun with GenericsBenjamin Hodgson is going to sadistically torture C#’s generic type system in the name of entertainment. In a series of increasingly extreme ventures to the edge of sanity, he’ll cover some advanced techniques for de-duplicating code, making APIs more expressive, and using the compiler to find m
Benchmarking .NET codeToday Matt is working with Andrey Akishin on an open source library called BenchmarkDotNet. It's becoming a very full-featured .NET benchmarking library being used by a number of great projects. It's even been used by Ben Adams of "Kestrel" benchmarking fame.
2016-02-21 10:39:46The big tech news this week is that the FBI is trying to force Apple to unlock a suspect's iPhone. One of the interesting points around this story is that the iPhone in question is an older one, an iPhone 5c.
The IPv6 Numeric IP Format is a Serious Usability ProblemHere at ZeroTier we love IPv6. Our mission is to directly connect the world’s devices, and a larger address space that does away with the need for NAT (or at least onerous forms of it) is more or less a requirement for doing this at future scales.
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.