Good article on when to use comments or not. Also gives a few tips on how to write them properly.

If regularly see people propelled tech leads without really knowing what it means. This short post is a good summary of the skills one needs to build to fit the role.

Concerning moves on the ICANN side... already in the agreements around .com and now trying to make its way into .net.

Nice post full of good advises for new (or not so new) managers.

Nice exploration of false sharing on performances in several hardware scenarii. A couple of surprises along the way.

Interesting experiment even though it's still early days for this kind of research and we'd need more such evaluations. They found that it produces mostly insecure code. This is not really surprising in the end, this manipulates language but has not execution model. It can be fixed only by coupling to some outside system.

There are many more useful codes than are generally used. We shouldn't shy away from using them when it makes sense, it also means the client side must be ready for them. Very often client code makes wrong assumptions on the possible codes.