Most of the developers have dealt with calling SQL server stored procedures from their applications at least once or twice. In my last project, where intense data mining is done on the SQL side, this is basically all I am doing. There is always a desire to wrap and abstract the ever-repetitive code to get […]

I noticed this morning that Google patent search returns 189 results for the query “homomorphic encryption." I have written about homomorphic encryption in the past; it is a true mathematical breakthrough which has the potential to transform cloud computing security. But the emphasis, here, is on “potential.” There is no fully homomorphic encryption scheme which [...]

So, after working for 13 years for the same employer, I’ve changed jobs. This month I joined Spruce Media; my title is "Software Engineer." ‘Course, I liked my old job, too, but Spruce Media’s offer was too good to pass up. It’s a really great time to be a skilled programmer; the market for top people [...]

In this article we will discover how to emulate simple logic gates, and then build them up to form more complex circuits.  By the end of this 2-part article we will have created: - Half-bit adder - Full adder - n-bit ripple carry adder formed from full adders - 4:1 line decoder - 4:1 multiplexer - 1 bit ALU that supports addition, subtraction, AND and OR operations - n-bit ALU formed from 1 bit ALUs I have a great love of electronics, and everything covered in this article I have at some point built from[...]

Intro I have been using F# for a year and a half or so now for all sorts of things - general tools, scripts and utilities for work,  XNA games / graphics / AI simulations, some async layers for rx-driven silverlight applications  and so forth.  I'm still pretty new to the functional paradigm, which I have been embracing (with a great deal of mind melting, and destruction of my OOP and procedural shackles). One thing I struggled with initially was the subject of function composition, and its relationship to[...]