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comp-sci

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Satisfaction

Working on projects or working on products? Which is for you? Both provide for interesting, stimulating work with difficult problems to solve. Which are you personally going to derive the...

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Automatic Deployment for Rails

For the Rails applications we’re building at work, as well as all the standard continuous integration features, we also automatically deploy our applications. That is, every time we submit code...

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Reading News

Previously, I’ve been a Google Reader fan for my RSS news reading needs. Now that I’m a proper Apple fan boi with an iPhone and a MacBook Pro, I’ve switched...

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Dealing with Bot Nets

Currently at work I’m designing a large-scale system that will be susceptible to a certain kind of denial-of-service attack. By way of analogy, imagine that Gmail didn’t bother to prevent...

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Still Alive

Yes, this is one of those irritating posts. Where a blog that you thought had quietly retired suddenly reappears with a post. A post that says basically nothing. A very...

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On the Nature of my Damage

Recently I have realised that at a very early age my attitudes towards and interactions with computers were permanently damaged. Like all geeks, I first started programming in primary school....

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