Ilya Martynov's blog

I'm working on a project where I need to build custom high performance HTTP server. One piece of this server is a parser for URLs in inc...

What is common about HTML, XML and CSV files, SQL and LDAP queries, filenames and shell commands? All these things are based on text which i...

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...