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OSCON 2013: A Review 31 Jul 2013 | 02:19 am
This year, I went to O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention, OSCON. Every year for the last four years, I’ve gone to a big tech conference. For the last three, I went to NoFluffJustStuff, which was later r...
Book Review: Presentation Patterns 10 Jun 2013 | 09:34 pm
I don’t post book reviews here very often. Typically I write up a few paragraphs about a book when I finish it and post it to my Goodreads account, which I consider enough of a review for nearly every...
Spring 2013 Semester in Review 22 May 2013 | 08:52 pm
Another semester is over, and it was quite the doozy like the last one. This time, however, it wasn’t because I hated the workload (like last semester) but because I hated the material. Or more specif...
Brief Thoughts on Software Craftsmanship 2 Feb 2013 | 10:54 pm
To catch people up on some blogosphere drama: Last month, Heather Arthur posted on her blog about an unfortunate incident in which some people on Twitter had found some code she wrote in GitHub, and p...
Fall 2012 Semester in Review 21 Dec 2012 | 08:17 am
My third semester in the PhD program is over, and it has unquestionably been my hardest yet. I bit off way more than I could chew, this semester was extremely unpleasant and, for the first time since ...
A Stroll Through the Complexity Zoo 15 Dec 2012 | 11:51 pm
This Fall, I took a course on Computational Complexity. I’ve been exposed to complexity in Computer Science before, but as an undergrad it rarely went beyond discussing P, NP, and NP-Complete. While I...
Scala Second Impressions 26 Oct 2012 | 07:00 pm
In December, I posted about my early thoughts on Scala after using it for a short time. Initially, I thought that using Scala didn’t buy very much – the functional style could be adopted in in Java, a...
Book Review: The Career Programmer 19 Oct 2012 | 06:00 pm
I recently read a book called The Career Programmer by Christopher Duncan. I typically don’t post book reviews unless I really love a book and want to spread the word, but in this case I felt compelle...
Getting “Real Work” Done 5 Oct 2012 | 06:30 pm
There are a lot of things that annoy me in my industry: lack of commitment to writing quality code, no discipline regarding tests, and many, many more. These things irritate me, and I see them all the...
Traveling Salesman: The Most Misunderstood Problem 14 Sep 2012 | 07:00 pm
Whenever people start talking about NP-Complete problems, or even NP problems, one of the first examples they reach for is the classic Traveling Salesman Problem. TSP makes sense because it intuitivel...
