My curiosity got the better of me and I decided to start playing with Bitcoins, which inevitably led to mining and then using Amazon’s High Performance Computing EC2 instances to do the brunt of the work. It’s actually very easy … Continue reading
I had a requirement to lock my laptop at work automatically without having to touch it. The way devised by a friend was to enable the screensaver and its locking mechanism every time my phone’s bluetooth was out of range … Continue reading
I spent a week by the pool in Egypt with my girlfriend, relaxing and…hacking. The lack of WiFi meant I had to rely on instinct and intellect to get me through my pet project and it proved a worthy exercise … Continue reading
So being a functional programming fan I ventured into the JDK 8 binaries and started playing with the myriad of changes relating to the introduction of Lambdas in JDK 8. All my code’s now on github and it’s work in … Continue reading
Being a hacker means one tends to sit down too much. The hunch-backed hacker image complete with screen glow isn’t too far from the truth for some of us. I hate this! We sit so much! So I’ve devised a … Continue reading
I’m a SpiderOak fan. It’s secure, easy and well documented. Some really good traits. Their support is fantastic too. After using it on my Laptop, I thought I’d start using it for my Debian server’s backup. It makes sense to … Continue reading
Clojure’s atoms let one transactionally and atomically store values. When one uses an atom, Clojure manages the mutation of the value and guarantees atomicity. Such a feature is very useful in a highly concurrent application. Much like Java’s Atomic* classes, … Continue reading
I’ve previously written on the wonders of Clojure’s agents, giving the programmer a wonderfully easy way of writing asynchronous code with very little effort. Here’s a slightly more complex example for those wanting more context. Combining Futures and Agents We’ll … Continue reading
or Clojure’s concurrency agents – a simple example Clojure has some fantastic concurrency idioms. Agents are but one example of what’s available to the JVM lisper — alongside refs, atoms and vars — that make concurrent programming very easy. I … Continue reading
I had the need to consider encryption of a flash drive for various reasons. Hell, you could justify it under “don’t be stupid” if you’d like. Having not really ventured into this arena before, I thought I’d write down the … Continue reading