Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. It is desirable for a program to be able to go to sleep and then wake up a little while later. Decades of madness.

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. As well as helping customers in South Africa, and across the continent with technology, we also have a number of programs to help foster startups and to support the development of technology skills in the education sector.

AWS 167

AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Apart from library code, maybe your application doesn't have frame pointers either, in which case everything is broken. As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%.

Java 137

Java Cache Google Hardware 137

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 31, 2023

What Adrian Did Next — Part 3 — eBay — 2004 to 2007 I’d left Sun (part 2 in this series) , and had a few months off over the summer, so (of course) got married to @laurelco, bought a “fixer upper” house in the Los Gatos mountains, and worked on getting it tidied up. and he thought it was cool.

Google 52

Google Transportation Programming Innovation 52

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

Developers, system administrators, database administrators, and enthusiasts were hip deep in open source operating systems, programming languages, and open databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Firefox wouldn’t see its first release until November of 2004 and didn’t start seeing widespread adoption until years later.

Open Source 114

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 114

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

without any need to code. It was developed in 2004. Selenium WebDriver is open source; It offers bindings for every major programming language; Works across multiple OS. I was working on an application that opened the provided webpage and then give the user an option to modify elements, add events, add analytics, and so on.

Testing 117

Testing Network Website Google 117

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assertions have been a foundational tool for writing understandable computer code since we could write computer code… far older than C’s assert() macro, they go back to at least John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine (1947) and Alan Turing (1949). Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work.

C++ 82

C++ Programming Code Testing 82