Archive for 2009
- Microsoft Hardware Tech Talk
Last week I assisted to a tech talk by a Senior Hardware Engineer for the Zune team at Microsoft Entertainment & Devices. He went over a number of subjects, ranging from cloud computing to handheld devices. A pretty good talk overall and a good look at what might come in the future at Microsoft. I [...]
- Yahoo! Hack U 2009
Last Friday, Yahoo! was back at the University of Waterloo for Hack U 2009. After a week of talks by web gurus, such as Rasmus Lerdorf and Douglas Crockford, came the 24 hours hack event. This year, we decided to do something useful and in this tough economic time, we ended up creating a mashup [...]
- Facebook VP at UW Homecoming
Yesterday was Homecoming at the University of Waterloo. For the occasion, Chamath Palihapitiya, Vice President of User Growth, Mobile and International Expansion at Facebook and University of Waterloo ‘99 alumnus was invited to give a talk entitled “Pushing The Digital Envelope”. I filmed most of the talk so I thought I could share it with [...]
- Basic Data Structure Addition to Batfish
Batfish is collection of data structures and algorithms written in Ruby that I started about a month ago. While trying to implement graphs in the library, I quickly realised that a number of basic data structure were missing to implement certain graph algorithms. Stacks and queues were needed to respectively implement the depth-first search and [...]
- Batfish, Just a Bunch of Functions
I have been programming in Ruby for a bit less then a year but already, I accumulated a number of data structures and algorithms. Since they could probably be of some use to someone else and I don’t want to lose everything because of a failure of some sort, I decided to publish them on [...]
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