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Improve Your Software Architecture with Ports and Adapters

Ports and adapters prevent business logic from becoming coupled to other dependencies. They create little classes with well-defined pieces of functionality.

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FFI: Foreign Function Interfaces for Fun & Industry

An FFI wrapper is much easier to write and maintain than a C extension, more portable across platforms and languages, and easier for users to install.

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The First Time Programming Scared Me

Back in March of 2012, I wrote some code that disturbed me immensely. The experience was profound and a bit frightening.

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Message-Oriented Programming

Designing around the messages, rather than the objects, brought my whole system into focus. If modules communicate by passing around self-contained textual data, or a simple struct

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Solving Sudoku in C with Recursive Backtracking

Recursive backtracking algorithms are incredibly powerful, solving complex problems with little bookkeeping. Here's an example of one in action.

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Binary Serialization Tour Guide

A list of most of the choices for serializing and communicating binary data structures.

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The UDP Firewall Punching Technique Explored

A proof-of-concept Java client and server to illustrate the UDP firewall punching technique used by Skype and similar programs.

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"All input is evil until proven otherwise. That’s rule number one."

The simplicity of this approach means that the instruction set doesn’t have to change and the code stays binary-compatible.

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