feeds | grep links > Speeding an Algorithm through Intuition and...
An example of empiricism trumping theory Slashdot linked to an article on ACM queue explaining how an in the trenches developer was able to prove a hunch that the potential performance of a well known...
View ArticleEmerging Languages Camp
The more programming languages I learn, the more enjoyable I find learning and reading about them. In that vein, Mac Slocum at O’Reilly Radar provides me another reason for regretting being unable to...
View ArticleLightweight Guide to Using HTML5
Once I actually started having to read about HTML, as opposed to reverse engineering it with view source, I pretty much jumped straight to reading the actual specifications. I’ve been hacking on HTML...
View ArticleClik here to view.
TCLP 2010-07-18 News
This is news cast 219, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, an admission of a mistake around correctly observing the licenses of some works I used after I stopped using the...
View ArticleRemix This Game Contest
David O’Toole has launched a project, almost a challenge you might say, to take his game, XONG, and do something creative or clever with it. I found this via Slashdot but the project page is well worth...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Data Sorting World Record, Reining In DMCA Takedowns,...
Data sorting record: 1TB, 1 minute HT [si]dragon. Latest in Perfect 10 case rejects sloppy takedown notices As the EFF explains, this is a small victory in shifting the burden back onto those issuing...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Verizon Changes Users Passwords without Permissions,...
Verizon changing users’ router passwords As the Slashdot post explains, the customer who shared their experience having their router password changed is clear that Verizon said this was for security...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Consumer Friendly ISP Caught Using DPI, P != NP Possibly...
I was traveling today so apologies for the lateness of the links and the utter lack of commentary. I’ll be at a tech event all day tomorrow so not sure that I will be able to manage better until after...
View ArticlejQuery Mobile Project
jQuery is one of the most popular of a class of libraries originally intended to ease the pain of working with JavaScript as implemented by a variety of web browsers. I’ve used jQuery for a couple of...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Pacman on a Voting Machine, PS3 Jailbroken, the Sound of...
Researchers re-program voting machine to play Pacman PS3 hacked bis USB dongle The sound of sorting algorithms Rob at Boing Boing shares some videos that show what sorting algorithms would sound like....
View ArticleCodeSounding, Sonification of Source Code Structure
So much for only posting some links tonight. I saw this project via Hacker News, which reminded me of two other recent stories. One I shared a while back was video of sonification of various sorting...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Digital Census in Brazil, Ads that Stalk Surfers,...
Brazil undertaking all digital census, using smartphones, Slashdot Contribute to SETI@home from your browser Via Hacker News. Re-targeting ads stalk surfers for weeks after they shop Slashdot links to...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Mozilla Cloud Editor Renamed, Google to Simplify Privacy...
I am still on the road, returning from Dragon*Con in Atlanta. There four more hours between me and DC, which will be tackled tomorrow, bright and early. My blogging should return to normal either...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > D in Gnu’s Debugger, Police Raids Hit Wikileaks and...
I am back from Dragon*Con but thoroughly wiped out. It looks like I will return to my usual blogging routine tomorrow. For now, here are some more links. Gnu debugger adds D language support, The H...
View ArticleMozilla Releases JavaScript Engine Aimed at Research
As The Register explains, this JavaScript engine isn’t aimed at use but rather to make the process of researching the future of the language more inclusive. From Mozilla Labs Tom Austin: “In...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Plans for Firefox Home, Review of “Get Lamp”, Open HDCP...
Contest to produce JavaScript demos no more than 1Kb Slashdot links to this now concluded contest that sort of reminds me of the demo scene in terms of the constraint to bum down code as much as...
View ArticleA New, Java Based Parallel Language
The EE Times links to the announcement from the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) at the University of Illinois of the Deterministic Parallel Java project. The broad goal of our...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > IBM-Oracle Java Pact, Interactive HTTP Tool, Future of...
IBM and Oracle agree to Java pact , New York Times Bits Blog Telnet like tool for HTTP Via Nat’s Four Short Links at O’Reilly Radar. He remarks it looks like a useful teaching tool, which it no doubt...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Hotels Held to ISP Regulations, Another Interactive HTTP...
Dutch hotels must register as ISPs , Slashdot Tracking social influence through Facebook apps, Ars Technica An alternate interactive HTTP tool Nat’s Four Short Links at O’Reilly Radar today included a...
View ArticleQuick Security Alerts for Week Ending 10/31/2010
Using the cloud to deliver security, ReadWriteWeb Facebook private pages still accessible, The Register New programming language with security baked right in, Slashdot Flaw allows bypassing of iPhone...
View ArticleDemocratization of Coding
Clive Thompson at Wired has an interesting suggestion, that coding should be accessible enough for anyone with an idea to be able to readily be able to implement it. He uses the example of an app that...
View ArticleNext Volume of Knuth’s Master Work is in Print
Slashdot has the news, that the next volume in the definitive series by renowned computer scientist, Donald Knuth, is now available in print. Knuth’s books have a somewhat mythic status amongst many...
View ArticleMicrosoft Enters the Parallel Programming Fray
If ever there was a sign a particular area of development was going mainstream, it is the entry of Microsoft into the space. Rik Myslewksi at The Register has a somewhat breathless write up of...
View ArticleRant on the Failure of Programming to be Pragmatic
A listener sent me a link to this rant, The State of the Art is Terrible, by Zack Morris. If you can wade through the technical humbuggery, I think there is a useful point. Several decades after the...
View ArticleMeasurement Lab and Google Summer of Code 2012
I rarely post directly about my day job but wanted to reach out that firmly on my head for a second since I know there are a fair number of hackers in amongst my readers, several of whom I have heard...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sense of Scale
Seahorse Tail fractal by Wikipedia user, Wolfgangbeyer CC-BY-SA What is high quality code? I have been asked this question now a couple of times in my current job search. I usually go back to my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
TCLP 2014-12-21 A Sense of Scale and Getting Back Up to Speed
This is an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In this episode, I share a couple more essays. Before the essays, I help spread the request for support from the GnuPG project. You can donate here. The...
View ArticleGetting Back Up to Speed
I had three hours to write a JavaScript single page application that implemented a very simple Reddit client in the browser. I was assured I would likely not need more than one hour. At the end of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
If It Sounds Right
When I first starting learning guitar, before I had a teacher and was just using books and videos to learn on my own, I worried whether I was learning good technique. I admit to obsessing a little bit...
View ArticleHope and Fear in the World of vim
For some reason, I decided to step back from any integrated development environments at work and just use my preferred power editor of choice, vim. If you are unfamiliar, an IDE is a very powerful...
View Article