Bitwise Evolution

(Edit: If you’re reading this after OSGi R4.2, then there is almost certainly a better way to accomplish the same thing)

I’ve been digging into OSGi a bit over the last week or so inorder to create some Eclipse plugins that will automatically discover eachother, and I’ve been generally impressed with the framework on the whole. The documentation [...]

A recent project at work required building a multi-step dialog to manage the interface between a user and an expert system (and some fairly advanced NLP to boot). On the surface this looked like a fairly standard Wizard problem — design a bunch of screens with questions, and then collect the answers as the […]

Memoization (not memorization) is the process of remembering the results of a computation for use later. (I think of it as “making a memo” to look back on later.) Memoization is the core to any dynamic programming implementation, and allows many simple algorithms to run in linear or polynomial time when they would otherwise take an exponential number […]