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Here it is... I will be typing some random stuff on development, cs & stuff...

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Notes on automata theory

Remarks from Motwani, Hopcroft & Ullman : Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation (during 45min reading) :Chapter 2 : Finite Automata- Give an example of practical...

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Topics in compiler implementation

Some compiler-related ideas & problems (Appel : Modern compiler implementation in Java):- Instruction selection : Machine instructions are represented by tree pattern. The optimal code is generated...

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Linux buffer cache & how to disable it (and why ?)

Linux buffer cache provides a excelent mechanism for black-box performance optimization by a modest cost or max 2 memory hits (hit 1 -> page not found -> fetch buffer from disk to buffer cache...

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Breakpoint

Okie, cut hereThis is another attempt into actually starting to write something ;)So, stay tuned for a bunch of stupid posts :) I need something in order to get started. Hopefuly, I might be able to...

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Perfect Hash Functions for fun and profit

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Bloom filters for profit & fun

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Managing shared state in Erlang

Though a functional language, with no apparent shared state, we can trivially implement state in erlang by (ab)using the single-bounded value concept (each value can be bound only...

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Profiling java apps using DTrace

- monitoring operational performance of java apps- finding bottlenecks- examining cache effects- example : heavily IO-bound app- OS/X / Solarisidea :(a) current java profiling options : (what/where)(b)...

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Instrumenting Java code for fun&profit

By code instrumentation we assume a proces of adding bytecodes to methods in order to intercept their execution (usually for the profiling purpose)Some of the purposes include : code tracing (getting...

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cURL out of memory on Xen instance (use and abuse series)

cURL, a part of everyone's favorite UNIX tool subset, got me into a bit of trouble recently, while trying to post a relatively large file, following a common 'just curl it' - logic (so commonplace that...

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Web Services Interoperability Soup

Some notes on .net - j2ee and cros-j2ee web services integrations :* Compatibility stepping stones : interaction styles, data types, namespace issues. * wsdl standard - 1.1 vs 2.0 ?axis2 vs jax-ws...

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