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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. Later on after some re-orgs we ended up reporting to Greg Papadopoulos, who was CTO of the server organization at the time.

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Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails: A Guideline

Smashing Magazine

if the information is read-only or editable); The file size is crucial for people with costly internet, slow connection, or limited local storage. Get the white paper”. A good practice for download links is to show the file format and size. Large preview ). Buy tickets”. Download the recording”. Large preview ).

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

Do configure your servers correctly, especially public Internet-facing ones. That’s pretty easy to statically guarantee, except for some cases of the unused parts of lazily constructed array/vector storage. Many of 2023’s worst data breaches did not involve malware, but were caused by inadequately stored credentials (e.g.,

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