Category: Software

Back up and running

Downtime One of the many great things about Samford University is that faculty and lab computers are on a lease system through Dell. That means that every three years, I get to log onto the Dell website and configure my new machine with the hardware that I want as long as I stay within the… Continue reading Back up and running

2009 ACM Southeastern Regional Programming Contest

Another year and another great performance by my programming students. They have already solved two problems and still have an hour left to go. Come on “Team Red C”! Hard work and dedication (we had to leave Samford at 5:30AM this morning and won’t get back until 10:30PM – 17 hours!)

ICOMP 09

Viva Las Vegas! After a three day drive that included quick visits to friends and family along the way in Texas and Arizona as well as brief visits to the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam at night (very cool!), and finally to Las Vegas, I arrived just in time to showcase my Ajax Performance Monitor Toolkit.… Continue reading ICOMP 09

Sun Microsystems VirtualBox

Wow – Sun microsystems has been busy – discreetly releasing and/or acquiring all kinds of important open source software projects. The banner of logos shown above just about summarizes it. Today I discovered VirtualBox while working on a cluster computing project. VirtualBox isn’t directly related to cluster computing, but it can be used to run… Continue reading Sun Microsystems VirtualBox