Here are some resources I found useful on the topics of teaching, writing and presenting. David R. MacIver. Warning: This blog has secret mind control powers. September 2013. Steve Losh. Teach, Don’t Tell. September 2013. Jacob Kaplan-Moss. Writing great documentation. November 2009. (Part 1: What to write; Part 2 …| dr knz @ work
Ever since I defended my thesis in September 2012, a thought had been left lingering in the epilogue of my book: that computing systems architects and designers are currently incentivized by market effects to build mostly “closed” systems that are annoying to tinker with. Besides a few exceptions like Raspberry …| dr knz @ work
The table Also available in PDF form. The online test A web application is available to assess your own skills according to this table for one or more programming languages. How to use this table The table characterizes the proficiency level (columns) of programmers of a particular programming language in …| dr knz @ work
Say you have invented “the next big thing”, e.g. the next C, the next operating system, the next processor, and hope your thing will shine, masses will come to it and you will be forever famous. You will invest money, time, the best engineering expertise you can get, to …| dr knz @ work
This article explains how I stopped a software vendor and at least one of its customers from hemorraging $50K+ yearly due to unnecessary costs. ❦❦❦ A recommended best practice in Enterprise security is the “three R’s”: Repair, Repave and Rotate [1] [2] [3]. Repair means applying security patches as soon …| dr knz @ work