Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Developing open source: don't listen to the people that want you to live under a bridge

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This post is for open source developers and all other people working on open source, while trying to make a living. You may also get referr...
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Saturday, June 6, 2015

Design of DelayPipe, a small class to let you execute millions of things in the near future

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When developing, quite frequently we run into the situation where we want to delay an action a little bit, perhaps for half a second. If yo...
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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Some notes on shared_ptr atomicity and sharing configuration state

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At PowerDNS, we've frequently run into this problem: a program has a complicated amount of state and configuration which determines how...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Some notes on sendmsg()

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This post is mostly so other people can save themselves the two days of pain PowerDNS just went through. When sending or receiving datag...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

On C++2011, Quality of Implementation & Continuous Integration

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Over the past years, I've done a few projects outside the main PowerDNS tree, and for all of them I've used C++2011. A wonderful...
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Monday, November 3, 2014

Tin cans, can openers and solar power: explaining the snail’s pace of innovation

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Innovation is fascinating. It brings us (by definition) all improvements in technology. Simultaneously, it proceeds at a snail’s pace. An ...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

The absolute minimum difficulty recipe with maximum impact: authentic chicken soup

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I like cooking, and I like to share that joy. If  you can’t cook however, your first efforts are likely to be mediocre, which is not very ...
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