bind

There are those times I come across an article that are so amazingly simple and obvious that it immediately changes the way I write code. Understanding JavaScript's Function.prototype.bind is one such article. It's one of those articles that talks about something I always knew but…

Keeping SSH connections alive

It's actually fairly simple. In your SSH config file, you add this: Host * ServerAliveInterval 240 The * after the host can be whatever host you want it to apply to, and *simply means to apply this to all hosts. So you could also apply…

Technology behind photos

So, we looked at JPEG image encoding, which is a very popular image codec. Especially since our image is going to be blurred heavily on the client, and thus band-limiting our image data, JPEG should compress this image quite efficiently for our purposes. Unfortunately, the…

Performance - Or how I learned to evaluate better

1. Given what I know of this person’s performance, and if it were my money, I would award this person the highest possible compensation increase and bonus. 2. Given what I know of this person’s performance, I would always want him or her on my…