Archive for the 'programming' Category
How InnoDB handles REDO logging – MySQL Performance Blog [by Ewen Fortune]
Friday, May 6th, 2011How MySQL InnoDB implements transaction log, aka REDO (Oracle), aka WAL (PostgreSQL)
How InnoDB handles REDO logging – MySQL Performance Blog [by Ewen Fortune]
Friday, May 6th, 2011Intellectual Cramps: Local Continuous Integration with Hudson and Git
Friday, May 6th, 2011Short article on how to configure hudson (jenkins) CI with git
Programming Language Popularity
Friday, May 6th, 2011A websites that ranks different programming languages by comparing statistics from search engine queries, news articles and job board postings.
Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle [by Peter Norvig]
Friday, April 15th, 2011An essay by Peter Norvig showing how to program sudoku solver.
Note: Read this if you are a software developer . Even better is to print it out and read it with a pencil.
InfoQ: Solving Sudoku with TDD
Friday, April 15th, 2011an article (with a lot of useful links, make sure you follow them) about how Ron Jeffries (author of XP programming) solves sudoku algo in a series of 5 blog articles to show his TDD approach. This is was contrasted by Peter Norvig solving the same pr…
Perl 5 to Perl 6 Regular Expression Converter [online tool]
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011It is not always works, but at least give you an idea. Perl6 regex syntax is really different from normal perl and it is not [yet] well documented. Or you can prefix each regex in perl6 with :p5 to make it perl5-compatible
A Tale of Four Kernels
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011Quote from the article: “Therefore,
the most we can read from the overall balance of marks is
that open source development approaches do not produce
software of markedly higher quality than proprietary software
development.”
A subjective code quality …
PacketShader – GPU-accelerated Software Router
Friday, March 25th, 2011Also see http://shader.kaist.edu/packetshader/io_engine/index.html and http://www.ndsl.kaist.edu/~kyoungsoo/papers/2010-lanman-100Gbps.pdf
Using latest x86 hardware and GPU to build a 100GB pc router / possible theoretically, but as of now, is not co…