Intellectual stimulus
After a year of doing freelance programming/consulting, I have a better understanding of why some people choose academia or research as a career path: Intellectual stimulation. I have been working...
View ArticleThis is not a rant
A kitten that is obviously ranting :-) Photo by Sergiu BacioiuI’m still here, I just have not had anything interesting to say lately. I have had a few drafts for a few different rants but I usually...
View ArticleComplexity
A fractal simulation from http://davidlebech.dk/fractals/I learned about complexity studying computer science. Complexity was often measured in space and time, denoted by Ω, Θ and Ο. We learned about...
View ArticlePrevent slow Linux performance on VirtualBox
Here is a quick tip if you are having slow performance with Linux running on VirtualBox: Assign at least two processors to the Linux instance Some background… My laptop came with Windows 7. I prefer to...
View ArticleMeta spam
The comment spam filter for this blog is not perfect so I usually skim through the spam comments to see if it caught something legitimate. Sometimes the comments can be quite amusing, like this one: On...
View ArticleAn SMTP server for testing
Today I needed to send some test emails from my application and I searched around for a very simple SMTP server that can save outgoing emails to a folder instead of actually sending them. This is nice...
View ArticleUbuntu — not ready for primetime
I wanted to install Ubuntu on my Dell XPS 15 to try out Steam for Linux. This was not the enjoyable experience I had hoped for since a lot of things did not work perfectly out of the box. Below are...
View ArticleUbuntu — so ready for developer time
In my previous post, I said that Ubuntu is not ready for primetime. I still think this is the case for most people. However, since writing the post I have acquired a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu 12.04...
View ArticleUnix tools on Windows
The other day, I set out on a journey to get many of the wonderful Unix tools running on Windows in something that resembles a terminal. In case you did not know, you can come a very long way by...
View ArticleAntecons blog
I have just created a new Antecons blog. From now on, Antecons related news and information will be posted there. I will also continue the developer diary there. For some time now I have felt that...
View ArticleSSL upgrade
Today, I finished upgrading all my websites to use SSL certificates. The main reason for this is that without SSL, every time I logged-in to any of the websites, my password was essentially being sent...
View ArticleOpen-sourcing the past
While studying at the University of Oregon, I worked as a teaching assistant in three different computer science courses. One of them was CIS 323 Data Structures Lab but this course was a bit special...
View ArticleTeaching philosophy
Teaching is fun. Unfortunately, I have not had the chance to teach since 2010 at the University of Oregon but I found an old paper I wrote for a teaching effectiveness seminar and I thought I would...
View ArticleSpotify royalties
Spotify by Blixt A.Spotify is a cool service but I do not agree with how they pay out royalties. In this post, I will propose a different way. The current royalty calculation is explained by Spotify...
View ArticleFixing an IIS deadlock
Found the below post in my drafts section. I should have released it a year ago but better late than never. Maybe someone with a deadlock problem on IIS and .NET 4.0 will find this piece of information...
View ArticleLucky decisions
Most people make lots of decisions every day. Some are tougher to make than others and some are more consequential than others. One of those small everyday decisions recently made me think about the...
View ArticleHeartbleed update
Due to the recent Heartbleed bug, I have updated my SSL certificates and now use only davidlebech.com as the root for all my personal content, including the thoughtflow blog. The domains thoughtflow.dk...
View ArticleFractals revisited
Going through old code can be fun and educational. While updating my website, I took an extra look at some of my featured code. When I came across my simple fractal simulations on the <canvas>...
View ArticleComplete independence
I am now jobless. I am now independent. For the next few months, I am going to work on projects that do not provide any steady income and I have not planned to take on any consulting or freelance...
View ArticleThe Notepad trick
There is a good reason Notepad has survived through all iterations of Windows. It is the best tool for clearing formatting! For example, copying text from a webpage to Word will often keep the...
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