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So, Does Anyone Even Use All These Darn CPU Instructions?
That’s the question I found myself asking earlier this month when I was writing a simple compiler for an OCaml dialect called MinCaml. I don’t know if you’ve ever taken a look at the Intel IA32...
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Global Hotkeys With .NET
So, last year while working at Resolver Systems I worked with the author of Movable Python, which is a fairly neat application that lets you carry Python around on a USB stick. As an intellectual...
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Bitesize Functional Programming: Active Patterns
Welcome to the first in what I hope will be an ongoing series of blog posts on research in functional programming. I see a lot of really neat papers come and go that show the great things that are...
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XMLHTTPRequest + Authentication = Frustration
So I just spent the last 2 hours or so of my life buggering around with Ruby on Rails and trying to get it to do a RESTful login (i.e. one using HTTP Authorization headers, as opposed to the normal...
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Frustration + Lazyweb = Results
OK, to follow up on my last post about the quirks of XMLHTTPRequest, fuzzyman very kindly provided most of the solution I needed. What I was trying to accomplish is optional HTTP authentication: that...
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Cute Haskell Code
For some recent supervision work on my Security lectures, I was given the task of decoding a string encrypted with a simple shift cipher. This cipher, given a key, simply moves each letter on in the...
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Fixing Experts Exchange With Greasemonkey
Well, I’m a bit behind the curve here. I hadn’t until now felt the need to install GreaseMonkey, but Experts Exchange (which frequently shows up in my Google search results) have started to blur the...
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Uninformed Journal Volume 7 Released
For those of you who are unaware, the lastest edition of the very entertaining Uninformed Journal came out recently. It’s a pretty interesting edition, though not as bulky as some of their previous...
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Breaking The Running Key Cipher: Part 1
I love challenges of all kinds, both the algorithmic and cryptographic. There is just something inherently compelling about pitting your wits alone against an intellectual challenge, free to apply any...
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Moving On..
I’ve moved my blog to my own website, here, so I can take control of the formatting of my posts, and finally stop posting broken code! I’ve also put up a new article, after a long delay due to my not...
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