Introduction

Recently, I've re-written my website to be dumber, faster, and more secure. How did I do it?. It's simple, no more PHP or any server-side code, and no more javascript. I've gone back to the pre CGI 1993 era.

What's the problem with current websites?

The client side

Too …

Introduction

If you've ever wondered how to get more performance out of your programs, without using some specific language tricks, you've probably heard of multithreading.

I'll try and explain in a really basic way how it works, and then show you when it can apply, how NOT to do it …

Context (sort of)

Recently I've been trying to improve my personnal project Windmenu, and one of the problems I found, was that while crawling through the Start Menu to retreive all applications, ModernUI applications were not found.

I soon realised that, the usual directory %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu did …