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Why you can’t afford NOT to have an online identity
In this age of social networking, there’s no limit to the selection of sites you could sign up for… MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Xanga, Blogger – the list goes on. From time to time, I run into the occasional person who absolutely refuses to so much as sign up for any of these sites. They […]
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Fitting a curve to three points
I recently had a need to fit a curve to three points. The geometry can get somewhat complex due to the limits of finite math, however, here is JAVA applet I’ve created with a relatively simple solution to the problem. The circle can be found using only basic math calculations and a single square root. […]
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Tower of Hanoi Animation
I recently made this animation in about a half an hour using the powerful 3D modeler Blender. This is demonstrating a solution to the Tower of Hanoi with the least possible number of moves when using 4 disks.
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Storing a Directed Graph in SQL
I recently ran into the problem of having to store a directed graph in MySQL. Actually, I was trying to efficiently store a thesaurus in SQL so that it both used little space and had high performing lookups. A thesaurus, as you probably know, could best be represented as a graph of some type; perhaps […]
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Objective-C Memory Management
Regardless of what your language background is, memory management in Objective-C can be a bit difficult to get a handle on. I won’t claim to be an expert on the topic, since I’m still learning myself, but here’s a few of the things I’ve learned while trying to unravel the complexity lately: There’s a seeming […]