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I Love Being a Programmer

I love being a programmer. Not to generalize too much, I'll just make the claims for myself. Typically the technologies that are fresh in my head are only those that pertain to my current job. The others fall by the wayside, although they're usually easily resurrected.

I Was Wrong

It happens. It turns out that libxml2 supports something pretty similar to what I had in mind. Instead of providing the SAX parser with a get-more-input-data callback, it has a "push" mechanism whereby one gives it data as it becomes available instead of buffering and providing data as

Message Parsing

So, I have this 2nd job that I do in the evenings, at home. At the moment I'm implementing this fairly poorly documented binary protocol that is used for serializing data structures. I have an example message that I managed to tear out of the also-poorly-documented transport protocol,

Streaming SAX Parser

So, I need a SAX parser. There are lots of those - so, no big deal there. But I also need a *streaming* SAX parser. That is, I need to be able to feed the parser data as I receive it. The platform in question has slow network access with

Thinking Back

So I'm just sitting at my new job, working away on an iPhone app and happy that I am no longer staring at the Bloomberg terminal interface. Don't be deceived: you may think that the Bloomberg interface looks like its a product of the 1970'

Wiring

So I've been tiring of the pure software thing for a long time, and upon visiting a friend in Atlanta who showed me his newly acquired Arudino PIC, a thousand doors were opened. I shopped around a bit and finally settled on the Wiring PIC. Its largely the

Bases of Pi

As I was falling asleep last night I started wondering whether pi looked more interesting in other bases. I took the first 50 digits (in base 10) of pi and made a bignum out of it and looped from base 2 to 36 and printed it out. Since I only

BigMath-20080428-1

Since I probably won't have anything substantial to add before I leave for Alaska, I figured I'd do a BigMath release now. I've added nth root support (which puts me one step closer to fast factorial support), string-to-bignum support, and a half-completed calculator GUI.

Is Java Dying?

I'm trying to find an RPC protocol (xmlrpc, json, soap, rest, etc.) and server-side implementation for Java that doesn't depend on the massively over-grown and unmanageable train wreck which is J2EE. And I'm not saying that J2EE shouldn't exist (although that thought

BigMath on the Free Software Directory

I had never heard of the Free Software Directory before, but they apparently have my BigMath project listed there. Also, the Free Software Directory listing for BigMath ranks #2 on the Google search results for BigMath, while the official BigMath page has moved up to #3 (previously #4), and something

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