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Upgrading to jQuery 1.9.x

Today it snowed. It started before we awoke and pretty much kept at it all day. Hence it was a day to do some work inside, and what better task than to clean up my blog? First port of call, and a major one at that, was to upgrade to jQuery 1.9. […]

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PCPlus 319: Recommendation algorithms explained

For the March 2012 issue, I wrote about a new subject for me, and one that I hadn’t really seen much discussion of elsewhere: recommendation algorithms. […]

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More script kiddie douchebaggery

A little while ago I mentioned some work I’d been doing with regard to 404 error processing with this blog’s engine. As part of that post, I disclosed some examples of remarkably stupid attempts to discover the whereabouts of standard PHP pages on this site. Except that this site does not use PHP, it’s not using WordPress of some ancient vintage, but instead uses an ASP.NET blogging engine. […]

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Potpourri for February 2013

Another entry in my series of “fragrant dried leaves in a pot” (English version), or “rotten stuff in a pot” (French literal translation): in other words, stuff I found interesting in the past month and tweeted or Facebooked. […]

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PCPlus 318: The physics of Angry Birds

Without a doubt,Angry Red Bird this was a fun article to write. Not only was there much research done in order to understand the physics of the game (that is, how gravity worked in the game, how collisions were mimicked, and so on), but I also had to play it. A lot. Can you say that you claimed $0.99 on your taxes because buying the game needed to be offset against the income from the article? I thought not. […]

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