Posts Tagged ‘ Programming ’

Headlines on a Plane

  • September 19th, 2007
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I’ve been hearing about Google Gears for awhile now and decided to give it a test drive with my new favorite web application, Google Reader. Basically, Google Gears is a framework for using web applications offline by providing a storage system (seems to be an SQLite database) which is integrated into the web browser. Installation [ READ MORE ]

If Smalltalk can Squeak, why can’t Ruby Rumble?

Amongst all my dabbling with Ruby, I have taken some time to compare the Ruby on Rails MVC stuff with the original Smalltalk implementation found in the Squeak VM. Now, I’m really not familiar enough with the Squeak MVC stuff to comment, but I did stumble across this well-though-out blog post entitled, “My Full-Circle Journey [ READ MORE ]

Introducing rbingo

  • May 9th, 2007
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Awhile back, my mother (in her never-ending search for creative educational angles) came up with the idea of playing “Plague Bingo” during the maggid portion of our Passover Seder. Needless to say, it became an instant hit with family and friends. She wrote the first set of boards by hand. While that was fine for [ READ MORE ]

Newzenflashen! Der OSLab ist bin moven der roomen!

***Sorry fur der krossenposten*** Ein bin der Ahprul, 2007 Mayn Enschteemede Kolligeners und Freindenpeeple, Das is en zerplashure mit cheekenblushen, zat ich bin anouncen ein tidnewzenbite. Der Advansener Opratin Systemer Laborworkenrum Vissnschaftlekher Institut (OSLab) ist bin movenlokashon a der undergroundenbazmant fun Lab I. Der laberworkenrum ist en der 060. Der OSLab bist a vissnschaftlekher istitut [ READ MORE ]

Looking Forward to KDE4

  • March 11th, 2007
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It’s not secret I’m a fan of KDE. In fact, I’m really very excited about the upcoming release of KDE4. It’s supposed to be lighter and faster while still packing a whole bunch of new features. My friend, Matthew Rosewarne, put together this great presentation which he delivered to my LUG last month. It details [ READ MORE ]

Things To Learn

  • February 23rd, 2007
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I have not had a great deal of time recently. That being said, I have accrued a list of subjects I desire to learn and technologies I wish to become familiar with. Some of them are neat and others are less captivating. If anyone sees something on this list that they find interesting, please do [ READ MORE ]

You, Me and OpenID

  • February 11th, 2007
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It doesn’t take much to get me excited. Even so, I’m quite jazzed over this whole concept of OpenID. Basically it’s a way for websites and services to authenticate your identity in a secure, flexible and decentralized way. Unlike previous attempts at single sign on systems, OpenID is a spec for getting the job done [ READ MORE ]

Go Atomic

  • January 30th, 2007
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I have a great deal of trouble explaining RSS to folks. It doesn’t matter when I call it Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site Summary (or worse yet, RDF Site Summary), the truth is that RSS is designed for a fairly specific purpose: making portable and parseable the content of blogs. Now, before I continue, [ READ MORE ]

Randomtest

My project for the remainder of my program is to continue my work testing PRNG schemes. My one minute intro poster can be found here. Additionally, feel free to browse our code repo which should look something like spaghetti. We’re in the process of cleaning up the code base and also porting out statistics and [ READ MORE ]

Graphing the Linux PRNG

As mentioned previously, I’ve been tinkering with the Linux pseudo-random number generator. I’m now ready to present my findings having had plenty of time to hack up code and mess with it. I even graphed the output with gnuplot thanks to the awesome interface provided by SciPy! I basically stuck to using the cryptographically unsafe [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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