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 [...]
October 5, 2008 – 6:45 pm
I finally moved the second of the two domains I actually receive mail on from my old co-located server to my new virtual server instance. This simplified things enough that I could easily leave gmail and switch back to reading mail on a unix box where I control everything. I’d been wanting to [...]
October 4, 2008 – 11:12 am
I am writing this blog post on paper, in the car while Tien drives, in preparation for NaNoWriMo, this year, in which I hope to write my entire novel with pen and paper.
I think I want to try to re-learn a cursive style of handwriting, primarily for the supposed speed advantage.
I recently finished [...]