Kirk's Rants

I code. I used to be super-hardcore in Silicon Valley. I moved to London, sold out and worked for financial services companies. Now back to the startup life. Here's where I rant at nobody in particular.

Monday, November 10, 2008

I'm Comin Back To San Francisco

San Francisco, Here I Come. At least for a visit. Next week I'm going to be in the San Francisco Bay Area visiting friends and running e...

Sell Me An AMQP Appliance

I've been doing some thinking recently on the bevy of AMQP broker software which is being created, and I think it's a really positiv...

IEEE 754 Floating Point Binary Representations

Just to gather up a whole bunch of stuff I had to slog through and make this more googleable, allow me to summarize some various trivia havi...

Friday, November 07, 2008

Linux Fork Performance Redux: Large Pages

After a comment from Kostas on my last Linux Fork Test post, I worked with my esteemed colleagues to try things out with large page support...

Monday, November 03, 2008

C# BinaryWriter is Little Endian Because Microsoft Hates The Internet

Let's assume that you're developing the primary runtime class library for a programming language, and you need to write primitive ty...

SSL For Self-Signed Bad For The Internet?

In an article (originally posted as a blog entry , then archived as a web page ), Nat Tuck complains that Mozilla's behavior on self-sig...

Friday, October 31, 2008

A London TechHub? Don't Be Daft

After Rob Knight gave a shout-out to me in a blog entry , I didn't realize that other people had been talking about trying to set up som...

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