Wandering Thoughts archives

2011-12-31:	My thoughts on the mockist versus classicalist testing approaches
2011-12-16:	Avoiding the classic C quoting bug in your language
2011-12-05:	Debuggers and two sorts of bugs
2011-11-17:	A classic and standard C quoting bug
2011-11-12:	(Not) parsing wikitext
2011-10-24:	Salting passwords compared to slow password hashing
2011-10-11:	Why people are attracted to minimal language cores
2011-10-10:	Arranging scopes for `for` loops
2011-09-30:	Unit testing by analogy to scientific hypotheses
2011-09-20:	Why I still comment out code even with a VCS
2011-08-31:	An interesting debugging experience (another tale from long ago)
2011-08-22:	V8's neat encoding trick for type tracking
2011-07-18:	Thinking about when SQL normalization can improve performance My view on ORMs
2011-06-20:	It's long since time for languages to provide sensible network IO What I need for stream decoding and encoding binary protocols
2011-06-02:	My understanding of SQL normalization
2011-05-24:	Proper SQL database design versus the real world
2011-05-18:	Why open source projects should use '`git rebase`' or the equivalent
2011-05-06:	A realization about cache entry lifetime and validation
2011-05-04:	Why `xterm`'s cut and paste model is non-standard and limited
2011-04-16:	Cache validators versus cache invalidation
2011-04-08:	An example of modifying a Firefox extension
2011-04-04:	Why logging to syslog is different than logging to standard error Logs are not just streams
2011-03-30:	A realization about code complexity and clarity
2011-03-25:	Sending email via a SMTP connection considered harmful
2011-03-05:	FastCGI's encoding mistakes and how not to design a wire protocol
2011-03-04:	Why I call FastCGI complex and SCGI much simpler
2011-02-11:	The letdown
2011-02-09:	On flow (a digression)
2011-02-08:	Thinking realistically about SQL database field sizes
2011-02-02:	My issues with primary keys are not Django specific
2011-01-30:	An obvious realization about SQL foreign keys
2011-01-28:	On programming (and me)
2011-01-24:	Poison pills, a tale of interrupts versus highly structured systems

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