Exploring Binary - Binary Numbers, Binary Code, and Binary Logic

A blog with infrequent posts, owing to its very specific subject. Posts include things like "How GLIBC’s strtod() Works". Actually very good, and probably of interest to students who're trying to remember those lectures I did about this kind of thing in the first year.

to ag0700 binary data-structures number numeric programming representation ... on 24 August 2014

The Last Line Effect

An interesting observation on copy-paste errors.

to copy-paste debugging errors programming ... on 26 July 2014

Rami Rosen

Some good presentations on Linux container facilities. (Horrid Javascript-based site, though.)

to container linux programming sandbox security ... on 11 July 2014

Applying mount namespaces

Various neat tricks with Linux mount namespaces, including how to emulate chroot using it (which you can now do as a regular user, thanks to CLONE_NEWUSER).

to chroot linux mount namespace programming ... on 02 July 2014

ferd.ca -> An Open Letter to the Erlang Beginner (or Onlooker)

A nice overview of what's unique about Erlang (the concurrency stuff is obvious, but the error handling is equally neat).

to concurrency erlang exceptions language-design programming safety ... on 24 May 2014

Systems Programming at Twitter

Scala, futures, and functional composition.

to concurrency network programming scala software-engineering web ... on 30 April 2014

About - Project Euler

A graded series of maths problems for programmers to try out. Students looking for some programming problems might like to try this.

to ag0700 ag0803 maths programming teaching ... on 28 April 2014

Cryptography Coding Standard

Patterns for secure cryptographic software (e.g. same comparisons).

to cryptography patterns programming safety security ... on 27 April 2014

The XPL0 Programming Language

Pascal-like language with some fun graphics demos.

to graphics language-design programming software xpl0 ... on 12 February 2014

The Descent to C

An excellent overview of what makes C (and the C subset of C++) an unusual programming language. Students: well worth a read.

to ag0700 ag0803 architecture c language-design programming teaching ... on 10 February 2014

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