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Joshua Thijssen is a freelance consultant, developer and trainer.
His daily work consists of maintaining code bases, working on different projects and helping other to achieve higher standards in both coding and thinking.
Monthly Archives: April 2011
The GNU Build tools, part 1
So there you are, you want to install some tool or application that didn’t come in a package, or you want to use the latest version. You download the tarball (*.tar.gz file), untar it, do a “./configure && make && make install” and all is well.. But what exactly is it that you are doing?…
Pragmatic Investment Plan – may 2011-2012
During some reading up on Dean Wilson’s blog, I stumbled upon his Pragmatic Investment Plans. Even though we have something similar in our company (called a POP “Persoonlijk Ontwikkel Plan”, which is more or less the same thing), I want to separate a “business” and “personal” plan. My personal plan is not only about my…
Varnish in non-compiler environments
Last weekend I’ve visited the loadays conference where I sat in the presentation of Thijs Feryn’s “Varnish in action”. Even though most of the talk was pretty familiar for me personally, a real interesting question was raised from the audience: is it possible to run varnish in an environment where there is no compiler available.…
binomial coefficients
Question: how can a simple question asked by a colleague turn into a blog post? Answer: when he asked: how many different queries can I build when I have 270 fields? The answer to solve this problem: binomial coefficients. Now I do enjoy math. I’m definitely no guru in math but I (hopefully) know a…
Back to basics: virtual memory
Memory is something (almost) no computer can do without. In todays world the saying goes: the more memory the better. But the way computers uses memory is very different than they did only a few decades ago and “more memory” does not always equals better performance. A small introduction and history in memory usage.
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