Coding Relic

In the last decade we have enjoyed a renaissance of programming language development. Clojure, Scala, Python, C#/F#/et al, Ruby (and Rails),...

This is the fourth and final article in a series exploring the Juniper QFabric. Earlier articles provided an overview , a discussion of link...

This is the third in a series of posts exploring the Juniper QFabric. Juniper says the QFabric should not be thought of as a network but as ...

This is the second in a series of posts exploring the Juniper QFabric. Juniper says the QFabric should not be thought of as a network but a...

This is the first of several articles about the Juniper QFabric . I have not been briefed by Juniper, nor received any NDA information. Thes...

As it was located near the center of the US auto industry, there was an extensive automotive program at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbo...

I attended a tech talk last week on node.js by Ryah Dahl . The video of the talk is up on YouTube.   Node.js Overall Structure The Ja...

Lets talk about iSCSI for a moment, as a launching point for a discussion about data integrity. iSCSI relies on CRC32 to catch data corrup...

March 24, 2010 is Ada Lovelace day, an informal holiday to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. I'd like to s...

We're all familiar with computer viruses: bits of code which attempt to transmit themselves to another system, from which they look for ...

What the web needs right now is another blog post about the iPad. No, don't run away! This will be different, I promise. We'll foc...

Y2K was a big deal. A huge amount of money was spent updating older software which stored dates using only two digits. A common solution a...

Jeff Atwood recently suffered a catastrophic loss of data of his long-running blog Coding Horror . The site was running on a virtual machin...

Behold: the Blaupunkt CD50. Perhaps "behold" is too pretentious for a basic car stereo, but it is the topic of today's sc...

I once worked on a system where one module was developed outside using Linux/x86 systems, brought in-house, and compiled for Linux/PowerPC. ...

Have you heard any variation of this claim? We don't need our own integrity check. The TCP checksum is pretty weak, but Ethernet uses ...

I am a long time Macintosh user, and though I don't generally write about Apple products I'm going to branch out a bit this time. Th...

Twitter is somewhat out of the range of topics I normally cover here, but I promise we'll come around to a software development angle ...

The Pragmatic Programmer is one of the best books available concerning the development of quality software. It is structured as a series of...