I’ve spent the past couple days working towards getting a common development environment set up, so that I don’t have to use different IDE’s and tools. I’m trying to get everything situated, since Winter quarter is likely to be one of the most programming intensive quarters that I’ve had. I want to be prepared, so [...]
I come from a fairly strong background in C# using Microsoft Visual Studio, and thus have enjoyed its wonderful intellisense features, so I had quite a shock when I tried to use it for C++ development. It turns out that Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 does not support semantic/syntax error detection or code refactoring for C++. [...]
Today I finished aggregating the data from the Python memory simulator logs into CSV files, and plotted the data. The graph can be viewed here. As you can see, there is a worst-case, normal-case, and best-case set of data, each corresponding to a page-removal algorithm. I think for a first program in Python, while it’s [...]
I’ve accomplished a fair number of items this week, and so I bring them here to you.
Our team for CSCD340 (Operating Systems) has finished our memory paging simulator (written in Python), and we are now in the process of running 6 tests on it. The tests include simulating the following:
Consecutive data, worst efficiency algorithm
Consecutive data, [...]
You may notice things appear differently. Comments appreciated…
In the tradition, here are some random good links I found this week:
This is really quite neat:
http://www.wordle.net –> see mine here
Awesome case mods:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/06/cool-computer-case-mods.html
The amount of win in this video is indescribable:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1886349
Also, I read Cringley religiously, and you should to, and here’s a reminder why:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20081107_005504.html
It is my humble opinion that the wisest words that anyone can utter, are “I don’t know”. This issue has always been there for me, but has reared its head with more frequency in the past week. For example, some friends and I wen’t to go see the movie Religulous in theaters last night, and [...]
Today an article came across slashdot, reporting that the USA government was plugging open-source software. In the comments on slashdot was a very humorous comment:
If the Government uses open source code that is under the GPL license, and modifies it to include some security or other feature that is considered to be under the umbrella [...]
“If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.”
-Richard M. Stallman
It’s kind of a shotgun approach to a title, but the title fits the blog post content well.
Today I received confirmation that I’ll be doing an internship for a local Spokane company. As an part-time intern, I will be learning ASP.NET, which is really nice. ASP.NET will round out start some of my Microsoft programming [...]
I recently reflected several differences in my knowledge:
My desire to know everything about computers, networks, and security, and what I actually know
In that context, what X is needed to know before learning Y
I want to know all there is to know in these areas, and in thinking about this desire, I realize that there are [...]