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References I Cited in My Masters Project

This week (er, quarter), I wanted to share the references I used while researching my Masters Project. It’s a collection of about fifty web links and books that I found helpful. Reading this stuff and staring at long sequences of numbers represents about eighteen months of my life. More information…

Reading ListSpeaking

Masters Project Defense

On November 29, 2007, I gave my Masters Project Defense before Dr. Chris Gill, Dr. Cindy Grimm, and Dr. Roger Chamberlain. This is the presentation. I’m posting it here because it involved analyzing low-level details of a Sun JVM running JBoss 3.x.

J2EE / Jakarta EEJBossPerformance Tuning

Masters Project

On November 29, 2007, I gave my Masters Project Defense before Dr. Chris Gill, Dr. Cindy Grimm, and Dr. Roger Chamberlain. This is the presentation.

Speaking

Flying Over Mars

I’ve had this one sitting on the shelf for a while. The last semester of my undergraduate program at Wash U., I created a flight simulator program that could be used to view Martian terrtain data. We created this by grabbing a series of still shots while the flight simulator was running.

Personal

The First 1500 Hamming Numbers

I haven’t had a chance to post anything here since the beginning of last semester. I’m in a class at the moment where all of the programming assignments involves annoying little math algorithms. The most recent required us to generate the first N hamming numbers using an efficient algorithm that…

JVM InternalsMathematicsMemory Management

JCup & JFlex With Ant

I’ve been bogged down in work and school lately. So, it has been a while since I’ve written anything. This semester I’m taking an Instruction Set Architecture course at Wash U–basically, the final project is to design a processor with VHDL in ModelSim. I think I’m going to stick to software.…

AssemblyC / C++Compilers

Using JCup & JFlex with Ant

I’ve been bogged down in work and school lately. So, it has been a while since I’ve written anything. This semester I’m taking an Instruction Set Architecture course at Wash U–basically, the final project is to design a processor with VHDL in ModelSim. I think I’m going to stick to software.…

AssemblyC / C++Compilers

Linux Kernel Modules

I’m reading the book Linux Device Drivers to get up to speed on writing Linux modules; I’ll be using this for an upcoming project, if all goes according to plan. This isn’t much, but if you need to get the most basic of kernel modules built, this is what you need to do.

LinuxOperating Systems

Examining the Call Stack with GDB

This will be the second Blog entry I’ve made. I need to come up with a fancier welcome and introduction to each of these things. I started the forth semester of CS Masters program at Wash U. last week. I’ve got a lot of reading to do.

C / C++DebuggingPersonal