Category: Computer Science

OSCON 2003 registration

It looks like the O’Reilly folks have finally posted the abstract for my One Year of PHP at Yahoo! talk I’ll be giving this summer in Portland, Oregon. I filled out the speaker registration page today and picked some tutorials to attend. Here’s what I’ll be going to: – Tutorial Session ID: 3959 Title: Introduction […]

Rachel’s a hacker

My friend Rachel who likes rabbits, always wears red, and talks about weird diseases has become a hacker. She’s sportin’ some slick CSS on her blog and kickin’ around some phat SAS. Welcome to the club, Rach. It won’t be long before you’re coding PHP like the rest of us.

Joe Andrieu: Carpe Diem or Caveat Emptor?

I’m off to UCLA to hear a lecture for my CS239 class. Here’s the abstract: For the prepared and alert entrepreneur, “Opportunity knocks far more than once.” Indeed, as the subtitle implies, the challenge is to erecognize the right opportunity and then stay focused on it. Many factors can lure one into taking the wrong […]

Prime numbers

Last night on the plane ride home I was reading a copy of Dr. Dobb’s Journal, a magazine for programmers (I think I got a free subscription to this when I registered for PHPCon). I came across Michael Swaine’s column and read about a polynomial-time algorithm for testing primes that was discovered this summer. I […]