A little diddy about binary file formats
Understanding the nature of file formats and escape characters has been an itch of mine. I recently found a few useful explanations that inspired me to write my understanding of binary files.
How computers represent data
Everything is bits and bytes, 1’s and 0’s to the computer. Humans understand text, so we have programs that convert a series of 1’s and 0’s …
Debugging with GDB
Understanding Big and Little Endian Byte Order
Crowd Favorites
Math & Numbers
- Mental math shortcuts, adding 1-100
- Understanding exponents and the natural log
- Div, Curl, Flux, Gradient and other Vector Calculus topics
Programming & Web Development
- Site speedups with HTTP caching, gzip compression
- Understanding Rails, Web debugging, and Javascrtipt
- Swap bytes with XOR, byte order, unicode
