Archive for the ‘ Development ’ Category
AI has always intrigued me. The idea of recreating human or at least intelligent behavior with software is an amazing idea. Unfortunately modern AI is nothing like the dream of creating human behavior. Sure the current solutions can solve some pretty cool problems, but its not the types of problems that people think of when [ READ MORE ]
Often I find myself needing to convert between upper case to lower case and vice versa. This is a fairly simple thing to do if you understand ASCII encoding. A good reference for the ASCII Table can be found here. As you can see, to convert a letter to lower case you would add 32 [ READ MORE ]
Have you ever received the following error while using Java and MySQL: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘????????????????’ at line 1 This is a common error when you first set up Java and MySQL to work together. [ READ MORE ]
For a class recently the teacher challenged us to write a code snip-bit that would be self replicating. By that I mean write a program that when executed would write out its own source code. This is a bit harder than you’d initially think it to be. My first attempt tried to store the source [ READ MORE ]
I was recently watching some research project proposals at my university. One of the proposals caught my eye, it was a way to stop common cheating techniques for page rank. At first glance the proposal has some good merit, the system would stop the current techniques used. However the problem was that they did not [ READ MORE ]
If you are like me you don’t exactly see the usefulness of the social networking site Twitter. After reading a recent wired article I can not better see that usefulness. There appears to be some pretty clever people connecting common house hold devices to Twitter. This really isn’t all that new of a concept however. People have [ READ MORE ]
Dr. Dave Marshall at Cardiff School of Computer Science has written a great C tutorial. This tutorial is mostly aimed at UNIX C developers and covers the basics of C programming to advanced multi-threaded application development. This is the tutorial that I used to learn C and I still open it up whenever I need [ READ MORE ]