January 31, 2010 – 3:07 pm
2009 was good to me. I enjoyed the first year of my job at Airwave. In some ways, it was a big adjustment for me, but I found it very satisfying — the organization works well, it’s given me a chance to improve my abilities as an engineer, and I’ve learned a lot. [...]
In January, I took a new job, working at Airwave (A division of Aruba Networks) on the Airwave Management Platform (AMP). We follow extreme programming methodology fairly closely (including pair programming), and I’m really enjoying it, though it makes for intense days. (But better intense than excessively long days.) It’s really good [...]
December 6, 2008 – 10:09 pm
I’ve been reading the Java Virtual Machine spec and the book Inside the Java Virtual Machine. I’ve begun to write my own JVM implementation in C++, not for practical reasons, but just for the learning experience. So far it interprets most of a class file. This has been on hold for a [...]
November 20, 2008 – 9:30 pm
I’ve been doing a lot of Project Euler problems in my spare time, as a sort of relaxation and challenge at the same time. As of this evening, I’ve completed 25 of the 217 problems available so far. I’ve written a few hundred lines of code to solve the problems using Haskell, C, [...]
November 3, 2008 – 10:36 pm
My enthusiasm is for erlang is somewhat dampened by the quality of its standard library, or at least it’s mismatch with some of the things I’ve come to expect through my use of Python, Perl, and other languages.
It is somewhat bizarre to me that there is not an obvious way to make a io_device() as [...]