Rob Janssen

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68 Katy – 68000 Linux on a Solderless Breadboard

What does it take to build a little 68000-based protoboard computer, and get it running Linux? In my case, about three weeks of spare time, plenty of coffee, and a strong dose of stubborness.

Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web

Today EFF is pleased to announce Let’s Encrypt, a new certificate authority (CA) initiative that we have put together with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University of Michigan that aims to clear the remaining roadblocks to transition the Web from HTTP to HTTPS.

What's New In C# 6.0

C# 6.0 adds about a dozen bite-sized new features to C#, all aimed at making your code cleaner and clearer. Instead of introducing new concepts, each feature makes a common coding pattern simpler, and removes boilerplate to let the intent of the code stand out.

HTTP 2.0 - Tokyo - Google Slides

Connect("Day 1"); - Microsoft Visual Studio and Azure

Starting on Wednesday, November 12, join industry leaders Scott Guthrie, S. "Soma" Somasegar, Brian Harry, and Scott Hanselman live from New York as they share insights about new technologies and features coming to .NET, ASP.NET, Azure, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Online.Backup player: https://

Announcing .NET 2015 - .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual Studio Community

C#/.NET Little Wonders: Interlocked Increment(), Decrement(), and Add()

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past little wonders posts can be found here.

The Right Database for Your Use Case

It’s been a while since I last posted, so I thought I’d share some of the things that I’ve been working on over the past few months to delight the audience of developers I write and research for.

Fast immutable vectors in C#

In the last post I talked about immutable stacks & queues. This post will be on immutable vectors. We want to support 3 operations:

What Are the Odds the Build Actually Works?

I’ve noticed that builds are broken and tests fail a lot more often on open source projects than on “work” projects. I wasn’t sure how much of that was my perception vs. reality, so I grabbed the travis CI data for a few popular categories on github1.

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.