I've been working with C# at work. It's not a far cry from Java, but it seems a little unpolished. Some things work great, others seem pretty primitive. One thing that struck me today was locks ( Read more... )

I applied for the Google summer of code this year, which is basically a paid internship to work on open source projects. I applied to three projects: two graphics engines and one multi-protocol instant messenger ( Read more... )

How to use raw sockets...muahaha!

In linux:
How to rename multiple files at once. The 'rename' command takes a perl regular expression as an argument, so I learned a little perl and brushed up on regular expressions. A few more days of working on this shell script and my grading will be automated, and my students will stop yelling at me to grade their labs.

I like the idea Jake had a while back of posting what he learned that day, so I'm stealing it ( Read more... )

There is a computer science topic called decision trees, which are used to map out all possible decisions and their results, and the next possible decisions and results after that, and so on. This is the method Deep Blue used to beat the world chess champion. There are lots of algorithms for minimizing the size of the tree, maximizing the quality ( Read more... )

I had this idea just before I woke up this morning. I don't know if it is good, bad, been done, or a potential thesis project. Looking for some insight ( Read more... )