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Understanding webservices specifications (and more)

We all know that JSON and RESTful web services are the new darlings of the Internet and, to some extent, backend development these days. Their simplicity over other mechanisms are, undoubtedly, a good thing. However, a large amount of the backend development still (will continue to) rely on SOAP and other mechanisms to provide services. That’s why […]

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Data Structures

Data structures are a recurring topic for any software engineer: be it because it’s required for pretty much any interview or because you need to find the most adequate solution to a problem you are working with. Nonetheless, there are a vast amount of them and it’s not always easy to remember about them. The list […]

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NoSQL: links for beginners

NoSQL databases are some of the hottest topics in the IT industry in the moment. A beginner can easily feel swamped with the amount of documentation available. Since I am a beginner to NoSQL as well, I separated two links which I access every now and then: A Visual Guide to NoSQL explains how the […]

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A large list of free stuff

This thread on Reddit contains a large list of free stuff that you can find on the internet: from educational resources to software and other utilities. I found Ninite to be particularly interesting: it lets you create custom installers that will install all your software at once!

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Some goodies

Coding Thread It Right: a post about how to thread it right in Perl. SSPS Beta: follow up with the latest development of SSPS. Other Interview (in Portuguese) about Career in IT

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NTFS on Mac OS X Lion

I have just found my definitive guide for setting up read/write NTFS on Mac OS X Lion. It’s available here.

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Old but gold

This is a collection of links that I took fry my old blog (in Portuguese): Code Like a Girl Idiot Proof Website Software Fable Remember: This Stuff Is Supposed To Be Fun How To Write Unmaintainable Code Hidden Features Of: C C++ Perl and Others