Robert A. Wlodarczyk's Blog (MSFT)

From the start of this semester I've been also working on what I call a "Name Normalization" Algorithm (or more generally "String Normalization"). What this is supposed to do is take an input of some number of strings and determine which ones are "the...

Starting last Friday I ended up working on a StringNormalizationList data structure that encapsulates the StringNormalization class that I was working on before. Essentially this data structure allows you to keep adding strings to it, and then you must...

Huh?!?! Microsoft is said to be licensing SCO Unix Does this mean that we'll see some changes in Windows in the future? Or will it just mean that things like Services for Unix will become more Unixy?

Today I had the first of three parts to my Ph.D. Quals. Let me put it to you this way, they stink. Today was "theory"... so all that stuff that I had a while ago in class had to come back to me. Friday is "software" covering operating systems, programming...

I found this in the latest issue of Visual Studio Magazine. It's the 2003 Salary Survey . Pretty cool to see that C# is tops in the chart for salary (see page 3). Also, it's interesting to see the salaries by degree (also on page 3).

... I haven't blogged recently. I guess just way too much is going on right now. I've got this one final tomorrow and I still have a few small Prolog projects to get done for Monday (argh!!!). In any case, I haven't forgotten about blogging.

Try the etherkiller and other misc. "killer" items .

So, it seems that this Microsoft licensing of SCO that I mentioned in my blog yesterday may actually end up turning heads more than I initially thought. As Jesse correctly mentioned in the comments yesterday, it seems like this is giving some legitimacy...

Your intellect puts you in a class above the rest, and it creates a sexual aura that's untouchable by people who possess nothing more than a pretty face. You have people and intellectual smarts and are able to juggle them accordingly. Your sense of the...

I'd like to thank George Tsiokos for adding me to the SourceForge project for the RSS.NET implementation . I'll be adding some new features to RSS.NET in the upcoming days, so I'll be writing about those soon too. Personally, I hope that this implementation...

So today I found out that for the International Competition we are allowed to make updates as per the judges remarks that they made after the judging was over. I think this is really great. Many of the things that the judges suggested to me I was planning...

Amidst my Ph.D. Qualifiers, I've been tempted to play with Windows CE .NET 4.1 (not the latest version). This is what we have available to us on MSDNAA at my school. So I grabbed a copy and figured that I'd setup a CEPC. It's actually pretty sweet. The...

I'm sorta mad at myself now... I spent the past day or two writing my own RSS 2.0 writer, and today I found this RSS .NET Reader/Writer . Looks like a solid implementation. In any case, I guess that time didn't go to waste; at least it made me beomce...

I saw this earlier today. It's a DFA generator for .NET . This looks like a really cool tool for people taking Computational Theory classes or who just generally need to define a DFA state tree.

Just looking through Don's weblog where he shows that it is now actually possible to write x86 ASM in .NET. Pretty crazy huh? I would have never guessed that someone would actually port x86 ASM to .NET, but apparently it's been done. Here's a direct link...

Coming soon to a theather near [only a flight away from] you... the Applied XML Conference , July 10-11, 2003. "Not only were there 4x the number of sessions submitted that could be accepted, but the quality bar was so high that it was almost impossible...

Wow, I guess this is a sign of getting old. Last night I met up with Prof. Peter Henderson and a few graduates from the CS program at Stony Brook .He was one of the best professors that I had while doing my undergrad degrees at SB. It was quite unfortunate...