Becoming a Tech Lead: How I've Balanced Coding with Coaching
In an engineering organization with many small teams, it’s important to develop technical leaders who can be both successful engineers and effective ...
A somewhat astonishingly good explanation of AES via stick figures (yep, stick figures):
http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html
Very funny, and surprisingly good pedagogy. I'm pretty much a math obsessive, and I now feel like I understand the 'byte xors == polynomial field arithmetic' better than I ever have before.
(the release form in the middle is maybe the best thing ever -- it's rare to see a good math joke, and I can't tell you the last time I saw a good math/interpretive dance joke. And thus, I celebrate it).
