Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

After the success of the books that Brian and I had written, which we got a cut of royalties for, our management decided that we should write books as our day job, and we assembled a team of experts to write up best practice guides as books in the Sun Blueprints series. I also helped out in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. It is a very interesting idea that builds on previous best practices to find an optimal solution.

Performance 111

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 111

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. Never assume that most businesses are well run, and that they represent some sort of “best practice.”

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

In versions ​​ earlier than ​​ SQL Server 2004 SP4, SQL Server latch enforcement protection involved more protection transitions. 2000, and 2005 - replaced with SQLIOSim) ​​

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40