Posts on C++, data compression, algorithms, and more!
- Nov 19, 2007
A funny New York Times headline points to an unsettling patent lawsuit.
- Nov 14, 2007
Angie's List was useful, and provided a pretty good service for the price, but I finally dumped my membership this fall. Let me try to explain why.
- Nov 13, 2007
I love a good word problem, this one turned up in a homework assignment. C++ source code is used to attack it.
- Nov 13, 2007
I have a simple C++ utility class I use to help me throw informative, easy to build exceptions. Yes, exceptions are problematic, but there's one place I can use them with impunity - to cause a fatal error that aborts my program.
- Sep 18, 2007
A Visa advertising campaign fails to resonate with me.
- Aug 23, 2007
Richard Platt, who oversaw the development of the first commercially successful VoIP phone system, is leaving Cisco.
- Aug 22, 2007
I explain the Graham convex hull algorithm, a classic problem in computational geometry, and provide C++ demonstration code. A fancy animated GIF build with gnuplot helps to illustrate the process.
- Aug 1, 2007
This article discusses the use of C++ hash containers to improve storage of subproblem results when using dynamic programming (DP). I provide a fully-developed C++ example of an algorithm, and show how it can be adapted to use hash table memoization.
- Jul 30, 2007
We're in panic over a transition from increasing clock speed to increasing core count. I argue that the panic is unwarranted.
- Jul 24, 2007
Phishers move to automated voice calling - a game changer!