Markov chains have many uses, from the practical (page ranking on search engines, search suggestion) to the sinister(generation of jibberish to fool spam filters) to the hilarious: simulation of human speech in a chat setting. It is the latter that I...

I ran across this old thing in a book recently and was amused. It brings back some memories ( snippet courtesy of Wikipedia ): strcpy ( to, from, count ) char *to, *from; int count; { int n = ( count + 7 ) / 8 ; switch ( count % 8 ) { case 0 : do ...

I used this tool recently and found it to be very helpful in detecting memory leaks related to closures and circular references (between JS and DOM). http://blogs.msdn.com/gpde/pages/javascript-memory-leak-detector.aspx I have found that many memory...

I was reading PC Assembly Language by Paul Carter recently. He discussed a very common bug, particularly among new programmers. I have a fascination with non-obvious bugs, especially when their roots extend all the way down into the guts of the system...

The ability to subscribe to events is the central plumbing detail when it comes to writing modules for the bot. Actually, the subscription itself is a minor detail, but what really makes it tick is PowerShell's ability to cast a script block to a delegate...

To say that PowerShell is the best shell scripting language ever is to understate its usefulness. The highest complement a piece of software can receive is not always praise of its near-perfect design or crafty implementation, but rather a simple why...