Monthly Archives: February 2012

XML viewing and diffing

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

Another simple XML tool, and a neat recursive diffing algorithm. (Part of my growing toolkit of XML tools.)

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Water cooling

Posted on February 15, 2012 by

A mere 12 months after beginning to gripe about my machine’s loudness, I’ve done something about it. I’ve installed water cooling. And the machine actually still boots and runs. :O

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Recreating the puzzle animation

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

One of the things from my old home page was this puzzle animation:

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Simple AI for bridges

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

I finally overcame several weeks of programmer’s block on the train this evening, by writing the AI for the bridges game.

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Vector re-normalisation with views in PostgreSQL

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

The much delayed followup to last year’s post Vector denormalisation in PostgreSQL. I’ve been wrestling with rewrite rules and triggers, and discovering it’s not as straightforward as I first thought.

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