As high level languages become more abstract, and offer more convenience features, it is easy to lose track of what the computer is actually doing. While this may be a great boon […]
The Evil and Joy of Overloading
Is overloading a bad thing? Despite a wide variety of new languages supporting some form of it I continue to find articles that say overloading is bad. Worse, I find many articles […]
Lingering Spaces and the Problems of Overformatting
Recently I started a new project and was surprised to hear my colleague express his desire to use spaces for indentation. I assumed this problem was long behind us. Though I realize […]
Curiously protective C++
Working with a bit of code last week I stumbled into something unusual. I was working on something quite basic so kind of surprised when I came across a compilation error. GCC […]
Rules for Framework Development
Each time I start a new project I find myself looking at the latest batch of frameworks. Lately those are web frameworks, such as CakePHP, RubyOnRails, perhaps JQuery, or any other of […]
Sessionless Authentication with Encrypted Tokens
Storing user credentials is one of the key roadblocks in creating a sessionless web application. Somehow you need to safely identify the user without storing data on the server nor allowing tampering […]
