2017-09-26

A Hacker's Tale (With a Human Side)

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Screenshot of Borland Turbo Debugger found on the interwebz, possibly the same version that I was using back then. This is a hacking story f...
2017-07-17

Grumpy Posts

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Besides the delicate grumpiness which is gratuitously scattered throughout this blog like the golden rays of light in a gentle sunset, ther...
2017-07-12

Rich Hickey - Simple Made Easy

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"Simple Made Easy" presentation by Rich Hickey from the InfoQ Software Development Conference, recorded at Strangeloop 2011 W...
2017-06-18

What is wrong with UUIDs and GUIDs

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Introduction Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) otherwise known as Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) are 128-bit numbe...
2017-06-16

6 videos from TechSummit Amsterdam 2017 (Jun 1st)

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A couple of weeks ago some of us went to the TechSummit conference organized by LeaseWeb .   Here is a list of the talks that I attended,...
2017-06-03

My notes on the Fielding Dissertation (REST)

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These are my notes on Roy T. Fielding's famous Ph.D. dissertation "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software A...
2017-05-23

YouTube: Roy T. Fielding: Understanding the REST Style

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A youtube videoclip titled "Roy T. Fielding: Understanding the REST Style" Quote: "It's really an accessible ...
2017-05-20

On scripting languages

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Foreword Historically, the difference between scripting languages and real programming languages has been understood as the pres...
2017-05-18

Devoxx 2016 Belgium - Microservices Evolution: How to break your monolithic database by Edson Yanaga

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My notes on Devoxx 2016 Belgium - Microservices Evolution: How to break your monolithic database by Edson Yanaga (I attended this conference...

Devoxx US 2017, Knowledge is Power: Getting out of trouble by understanding Git by Steve Smith

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My notes on Devoxx US 2017, Knowledge is Power: Getting out of trouble by understanding Git by Steve Smith "If that doesn't...