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9 months of useless Netcathosting spam

In December of last year an odd comment made it into the moderation queue. All it said was “Array”. Most likely the spammer’s intention was to submit a random element out of a collection, but got the object’s type string instead, such as if an index was not supplied. I just chuckled, saved a screenshot, [...]

The effective bandwidth of a speeding Toyota Matrix

CompSci.ca is moving onto a dedicated server. This means that this blog, forums, and other projects will run blazingly fast as soon as they move out of the crowded shared host. This also means that we need to start thinking about our own off-site backup system. That happens to be located in Dan’s basement, Thunder [...]

Blind Programming – Literally

Peter Lundblad, by all conventional definitions, would be considered a programming guru. He is a leading contributor to Subversion, an open sourced code management project – a widely used system. For his talents, Peter is also employed by Google (Google Code implements Subversion to host open source projects). Though what makes his story inspirational, is [...]

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