I don’t recall exactly where I picked up the technique for shredding memory on allocation and dealloaction in C programs. I think it was from a usenet post (comp.lang.c). I do recall reading about memory shredding in a book I purchased some afterwards...
The recurrence relation for the Fibonacci sequence is ubiquitous:
for and .
Suppose we want to know the th Fibonacci number ( without dealing with all the recursion above. How can that be found?
What...
I once worked on a job where the input data for a machine learning implementation was dirty. The data were encoded using various schemes, were incomplete, inconsistent, and sometimes, just plain wrong.
This lack of accuracy and integrity in the source...
Just for fun, I’m bringing one of my older Rails projects up to date with respect to Ruby and Rails. It’s currently running on 3.1, and as I recall, getting from 3.1 to 3.2 is harder than getting from 3.2 to 4.0.
Let’s see how it goes.
Ok...
I’m slowing consolidating all of my online presence into a single git repo. There is a lot to do, it will probably take several years to finish as it’s not that high a priority.
One of the next step is bring some private pages I have detailing various...
Here’s an interesting technique I’d like to see more of in the wild: passing in error handlers using callbacks. For that matter, I’m a fan of callbacks in general, but that’s probably my c programming background showing through.
Note: the basis...
I ran across an interesting method in a colleague’s commit
recently, which monkey patched Ruby’s Array class. To me, it nearly
epitomizes Ruby’s elegance by packing a number of powerful
techniques into a single short line of code, without being unreadably...
I’ve bugged the Big Boss at work off and on for “What’s the best thing to read on information security?”
It’s not that I can’t find millions of pages to read, the problem is knowing the right thing to read. All things equal, I’d prefer to start with...
In 1946, George Orwell published an essay entitled Politics and the English Language. Orwell noted that much of what passed for political discourse (in 1946) consisted mainly of vague or meaningless phrases tacked together much as one would assemble...
As noted in “Going static with Middleman,” I have a fair bit of work ahead to rebuild my personal website.
This is part of that work.
Ruby is not usually regarded as—or employed as—a functional programming language. Yet Ruby does support a fair...
After running WordPress for years and years, and even doing some freelancing in the WordPress arena, I found myself far too busy within a new career as a Ruby programmer to devote the time for necessary care and feeding of WordPress.
Then I got hacked...