While I was at Grinnell, I wrote a lot of papers. More than 70 by my count. Over time I learned to embrace the maxim that “all good writing is rewriting.”
Now, as a software engineer I write proposals, technical specifications, documentation and (of course) e-mails. All of these require writing, editing, proofreading [...]

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The first week of my final semester of grad school is in the bag. This go-round is all about software design, both low-level (“RSEG 109: Object-Oriented Design“) and high-level (“RSEG 290: Special Topics: Design Patterns”). When you add in the reading group we’re starting at work, this could also be called the “UML [...]

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Peter Webb, one of my coworkers, published an article entitled “Rendering High Dynamic Range Images on the Web” in the July 2008 issue of the MATLAB Digest. Enjoy!

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I am a serious podcast junkie. I currently have over 16 days of unheard podcasts. News, arts and culture take up most of my bandwidth.
Recently — and by that I mean the last few months — I’ve been working on two big podcast series.
Earlier in the summer I finished listening to Jeff Curto’s [...]

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Comrade programmers!
About five years ago I wrote a little program to help me find numeric patterns in arrays. Basically I needed to find byte patterns like 0xFFFE 0xE000 in the data from DICOM files. Something like MATLAB’s strfind function, except more general than looking for substrings in strings.
So I wrote a rather naïve [...]

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