Coding Relic

Function works first time Briefly feel elation... Did it really work? Having code work the first time is more annoying than having it f...

The ARM architecture dominates mobile computing. It is used in all popular mobile phones and in a huge percentage of battery powered device...

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I'm currently reading Cognitive Surplus , by Clay Shirky . It builds upon his earlier Here Comes Everybody , detailing how the Internet ...

If you have an Android phone, Barrr is a wonderful game by FireDroid . It is available in the Android Market or direct from their site via a...

I ran into an interesting variation on the brain being able to recnogzie mispsleled wrods so long as the first and last letters are correct...

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...

The last few years have seen much innovation in source code management systems. Personally I find these systems to be needlessly complex, an...

Continuing investigation into JIT compilation for virtual machines , today we will delve into some of the plumbing. libjit is a library for...

You might think this is a painting of an espresso machine, but that is incorrect. Its actually an early Victorian prototype of the Arduino ,...

When Apple announced its A4 ARM CPU, I speculated about what would be in it. This speculation turned out to be completely wrong, but it wa...

Monday morning posts on this site are normally jokes, funny observations, and amusing bits of fluff. Today I have to tip my hat to something...

Image courtesy of Apple When Gizmodo acquired an iPhone 4 prototype , I recall a mention that Apple execs were especially annoyed because...

Virtual Machine architectures are a fascinating topic, and one that I plan to occasionally explore in this space. Not virtual machines in t...

Yesterday Louis Gray pieced together vague snippets of information from tweets made by the founders and investors of Foursquare and Brizzl...