Ilya Martynov's blog

By shell scripting I mean bash as it is what most (all?) Linux distributions use. Bash can be used as a quite capable programming language ....

When I was reading "API: Design Matters" I recalled one example of good API vs bad API. Actually my example is more about good A...

1. Not learning how to use EXPLAIN SELECT I'm really surprised how many developers who use MySQL all the time and who do not know or und...

Until recently I hadn't much experience writing multi-threading programs in C++ so when I tried to I found that I'm really confused ...

For most Boost 's libraries its documentation requires you to read everything from the start to the end before you can write any code. C...

I used to have a blog at use.perl.org but I just was too lazy to write often. One problem it seems you need a certain discipline to keep ...