Although you probably never need it as much as a C-programmer would, it’s not a bad idea to know how bit manipulation works. This post will tell you a bit about what bit manipulation is, why you …
Read more →Compression is used all around us every single day. You (or your girlfriend/wife most likely) folds your clothes nicely so they all fit in your closet. When recycling, you flatten the cardboard …
Read more →Developers are proud of their work. The best way to get unhappy developers is to force them to create and deploy some crappy software. Sales however, does not care about crap software.. it just needs …
Read more →When you visit PHP conferences nowadays, you’ll notice a lot of talk about the Joind.in website (http://joind.in). It’s basically a site where you can register a conference, all the …
Read more →Welcome to the first part of CybOS. We talk a bit about the bootsector. From part 2 on, everything is “kernel based”, which means we have setup the system and jumped to our main kernel. …
Read more →Somewhere in 1998 or even earlier, I started my own little project in creating a - functional - Operating System from scratch. Not a linux clone and not a MS-DOS wannabe. Just a simple OS that is …
Read more →Cardinality and selectivity are two keywords that are very important when dealing with optimization in MySQL queries and indexes. This article will go a bit in depth on both terms and tries to let you …
Read more →Nowadays most lowlevel functionality like reading or writing graphics are taken care of 3rd party libraries and that’s ok. It’s way to complicated to do things right and you probably want …
Read more →Error: Your email address is invalid. Every time I see those or similar words when I fill out a registration form I start to cry a little. It’s not my email address that is invalid, it’s …
Read more →TinyMCE is truly a remarkable editor. It’s the one I’m typing in now.. it’s the one we use for letting our e-commerce customers use for editing pages and it’s the one we use in …
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