My Work
Some of my work and writing is available below. [PDF] indicates that the item is available only in the PDF format.
Technical Articles and Work
- Who Ya Gonna Call? [PDF] — TechConnect 2006 entry, with Chris Tomkins.
- Subversive Componentization [PDF] — TechConnect 2005 entry.
- Why password aging is dangerous.
- A Quick Tutorial on Generating a Huffman Tree.
- A primer on the horizontal retrace which I wrote after writing a program to optimize display on VGA monitors.
- A review of the Creative Labs Nomad (or D.A.P.) Jukebox, with some tips if you already own one.
- Some tips on using SpamAssassin.
- I have made small contributions to the dia open-source diagramming software.
Academic and Industrial
- My MEng Individual Project on Web Server Performance Simulation.
- A project on queueing theory which I wrote with two colleagues in the first year at university.
- A project on the National Lottery [PDF] which I completed for A-Level Statistics.
- A presentation [PDF] I gave at ApoApsis on object-relational mapping in Java. The presentation is a bit wordy and not really self-explanatory. Sorry about that.
Personal
The self-indulgence section.
- My mini-site for Isaac Asimov’s Robot books and stories. I constructed this ages ago, but it isn’t maintained much anymore.
- A complete solution to the LucasArts computer game Day of the Tentacle which I wrote with a friend in 1995.
- The Bored Colander and the Sad and Tragic Tale of His Girlfriend the Bisexual Naive Nutmeg — Written for a friend’s birthday.