Coding Relic

(This is one of a series of Software Engineering Maxims Which May or May Not Be True, developed over the last few years of working at Googl...

(This is one of a series of Software Engineering Maxims Which May or May Not Be True, developed over the last few years of working at Googl...

(This is the second in a series of Software Engineering Maxims Which May or May Not Be True, developed over the last few years of working a...

(This is the first in a series of Software Engineering Maxims Which May or May Not Be True, developed over the last few years of working a...

I've spent the last few years working as a software engineer and manager at Google Fiber. It was interesting work, but did not leave a l...

We're almost out of IPv4 addresses, yet IPv6 deployment is still very, very slow . This is a recipe for disaster. I'm talking End of...

An article in the March 8 issue of the journal PLoS Computational Biology (as reported by Science Daily) states: Upon pre-synaptic excit...

In software development sometimes you spend time on an implementation which you are unreasonably proud of, but ultimately decide not to use ...

In addition to its role in assigning IPv4 addresses, DHCP has an options mechanism to send other bits of data between client and server. For...

When building the software for a new device there are a ton of things which need to go into the filesystem: binaries, libraries, device node...

SOPA isn't dead. It hasn't been defeated. It hasn't been stopped. Its just regrouping. Their main mistake was in allowing it t...

Last week Greg Ferro wrote about the use of merchant silicon in networking products. I'd like to share some thoughts on the topic. ...

Earlier this week Sam Biddle of Gizmodo published How the Hashtag Is Ruining the English Language , decrying the use of hashtags to add add...

The utilities used to run from poles, now they are underground. The functionality is unchanged, but the implementation is cleaner.