Profiling Proficiency
Trying to assess the impact of the Ragel state machine generator on software, I’ve been trying to come down with a quick way to seriously benchmark some simple testcases, making sure that the results...
View ArticleAutotools Come Home
With our experience as Gentoo developers, me and Luca have had experience with a wide range of build systems; while there are obvious degrees of goodness/badness in build system worlds, we express our...
View ArticleCrawlBot Wars
Everybody who ever wanted to write a “successful website” (or more recently, thanks to the Web 2.0 hype, a “successful blog”) knows the bless and curse of crawlers, or bots, that are unleashed by all...
View Article(Val)grinding your code
One of of the most exoteric tool when working on software projects that developers should be using more often than they do, is certainly Valgrind. It’s a multi-faced tool: timing profiler, memory...
View ArticleNever a panacea: ModSecurity drawbacks
I’ve written before of using ModSecurity for reducing bots traffic, especially for those bots that are not important to the success of a site, like almost all of the so-called “marketing bots”....
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