Exploring Extreme Programming
A certain type of science-intensive application only has a few (or even no) control parameters. It is usually driven by a “big data” analysis. The algorithms inside may or may not be very complex. There are many applications like this: Continue reading Science-Intensive Apps: Handle with Care
In building a cache for the SortTables™ data viewer, I ran across three hidden things. An LRU Cache I want to view data sets that are larger than memory, so I developed a cache that gets rid of the Least Continue reading Programming: Using What’s Hidden
Parsing Techniques, A Practical Guide (2/e), by Dick Grune and Ceriel J.H. Jacobs This book covers a huge range of parsing techniques – every parsing technique I’d heard of, and many more. Once Donald Knuth gets ready to produce volume Continue reading Review: Parsing Techniques, A Practical Guide (2/e)