Control Structure

Control Structure is a podcast about computer science, IT news, stories, opinions, tips, and tricks for programmers, testers, administrators of all types and more, for fun or for profit hosted by Andrew Bailey and guests. And also some other things, just because they are cool

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Episodes

Control Structure #7: A Sexy Font

Andrew Bailey and Matthew Petschl talk about the New Year, progressive JPEGs, user interfaces, Postgres, Guild Wars, Fonts, and more. Things: It’s official: U.S. hits debt ceiling – Dec. 31, 2012 Performance Calendar » Progressive jpegs: a new best practice The Perception of Speed | High Performance Web Sites Max Themes Blog – ✎ If you see a UI walkthrough, they blew it The Technology Problem – notes.unwieldy Solve your first-world problem How multi-disk failures happen – SysAdmin1138 Expounds M...

Jan 03, 2013•52 min

Control Structure #6: Stuffed My Face

Hear Andrew Bailey musing about CPU architectures, fonts, visual design, minimalism, Linux, games, technicolor rabbits, and how to delete your enemy's dropbox. Things: Installation Anxiety – YouTube China tightens ‘Great Firewall’ internet control with new technology | Technology | guardian.co.uk Steam under Linux – Valve Developer Community How to terminate your worst enemy’s Dropbox account for only $795 VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience (“Metro”) by VideoLAN » Updates — Kickstarter Up...

Dec 27, 2012•36 min

Control Structure #5: Not A Lawn Ornament

This week, Andrew and Ryan discuss varied topics like the apocalypse, HTML, encryption, gaming, VoIP, databases, and Andrew's blog. Things: Off World Backup – We can save your data, but we can’t save you Dropbox Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Welcome Guido! Microsoft pulls the plug on its Silverlight.Net site | ZDNet HTML5 Definition Complete, W3C Moves to InteroperabilityTesting and Performance HTML5 HTML 5.1 H.264 Support Lands in Firefox 20 Nightly on Windows Introducing Qt 5.0 | Qt Blog The UN’s...

Dec 21, 2012•1 hr 34 min

Control Structure #4: A Public Hazard

In this episode, Chris and Andrew talk about monitors, Linux, efficient vs performant CPUs, an old hard drive, network connections, and room mates. Things: So Many Monitors Screens | Ryan Rampersad VideoLAN – VideoLAN – Press Release – Windows 8 Fundraiser VideoLAN – VLC media player for iOS 25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu “spyware” because it tracks searches | Ars Technica Coming in Ubuntu Linux 13.04: instant purchases from the desktop | P...

Dec 12, 2012•47 min

Control Structure #3: An Oreo Cream Cheese Suspension

Andrew Bailey and Matthew Petschl discuss the UN taking over the Internet, people dropping off it, copyright gone amok, Microsoft's woes, Apple's woes, data URIs, Fourier Transforms, and more. Things: Crovitz: The U.N.’s Internet Sneak Attack – WSJ.com EU set to fight Internet tax and spying at global summit| Reuters Why is ITU Governance of the Internet a Bad Idea? | The Mozilla Blog Official Google Blog: Keep the Internet free and open How Syria Turned Off the Internet – CloudFlare blog Syrian...

Dec 07, 2012•1 hr

Control Structure #2: One Is The Loneliest Number

In this episode, Andrew talks about security, wars, file transfers, web servers, Raspberry Pis, and blog themes. Links: When It Comes to Security, We’re Back to Feudalism | Wired Opinion | Wired.com Windows XP: 500 Days Left Bitcoin Block Reward Halving Successful – Coding In My Sleep BBC News – WWII pigeon message stumps GCHQ decoders Despite Ceasefire, Israel-Gaza War Continues Online | Danger Room | Wired.com Woz: Microsoft might be more creative than Apple | Technically Incorrect – CNET News...

Nov 29, 2012•22 min

Control Structure #1: What’s For Dinner?

Andrew Bailey and guest Ryan Rampersad discuss hard computer science topics like discrete cosine transforms and mapping real things to 3d models, along with backups, Bitcoin, bad things, old things, fiber optics, open source, and more. Topics: Neumont University – Neumont University WebGL The Computer Backup Rule of Three – Scott Hanselman Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day Microsoft SkyDrive users: claim your free 25GB | ZDNet Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speed...

Nov 22, 2012•1 hr 45 min

Control Structure #0: Birth of a Podcast

On the premier episode, Andrew and Ian talk about Firefox, WebGL, page load times, regex, Java, C++, hardware failures, and more. Links Firefox turns 8 Wired has a series about fixing software patents (and patents in general) Microsoft patents head counting software for kinect, and charge more for more people in the room WebGL podcast starts Andrew’s blog post about WebGL Ransomware is an effective scam, it is on the rise The biggest 2000 websites are slower this year than last; top 100 are slow...

Nov 14, 2012•30 min

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