Python Module Spotlight: HDF5

I wanted to try coding a python program that used a Strassen algorithm to multiply two extremely large matrices.   I my first hunch was to use numpy and after a bit of googling I found my way to this SO question.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3218645/handling-large-dense-matrices-in-python

People who answer their own questions are nice, but anyway this HDF5 library looks promising. I’m going to spend some time today an maybe next weekend attempting to code this.

http://alfven.org/wp/hdf5-for-python/

Free OpenGL Book – Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming

Found this book on reddit today.  I never done any OpenGL programming before but I might to some little experiments to see how it works.

Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming

http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/

Coursera

Coursera is up and running. It’s a collection of free online classes provide by institutions such as Princeton, Stanford, Berkley, University of Michigan, and University of Pennsylvania. I’ve only just browsed what computer science courses they offer but it looks like there are plenty to choose from.

https://www.coursera.org/

If you’re intersted in this style of learn also check out Harvard’s OpenCourseWare classes.

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

Threading Programming Guide

Found this one with Google. This is an Apple iOS Developer Guide on threading.  I’m only about two chapters in so far but its been a great read.

Anyway here is the link:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Multithreading/Introduction/Introduction.html

 

Also here is a link to a PDF version you can view or download.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Multithreading/Multithreading.pdf

Video – OWASP Webscarab Ng

Can’t seem to fall asleep and getting pretty bored. Anyway here is something awesome.

OWASP Webscarab Ng
By: Rogan Dawes
http://www.securitytube.net/video/311

Yi Haskell?

The Yi Editor looks pretty fun to play around with.  It’s an open source text editor written in Haskell.  

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi

Administrator’s Guide to Powershell Remoting

This article on remoting in PowerShell was an awesome read, defintaly worth the bookmark.  Fan-Out was one of my favorite parts.

http://powershell.com/cs/media/p/7257.aspx

OWASP Web Application Tool: Hatkit

I just learned about this one not that long ago and it’s looks very promising.  If anyone used WebScarab you should like this one.

 

Also here is a presentation I found useful that help me understand how to use this tool.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qAnh_1pURCU%5D

Dive into Structs

Here are some resources on the apache’s  Structs library, most of this was taken from apache’s structs site:

http://struts.apache.org/

PowerShell Cheat Sheet – Part One

This part of cheat sheet I’ve putting together for myself.

PowerShell Pipelining Example

Alright pipelining in PowerShell proved to be helpful tonight. Here a quick example to get you combining multiple cmdlets.

First of lets look at a single cmdlet. Type this into your PowerShell terminal.

get-process *

That cmdlet uses a wild card that will list off all process on your local machine. Now lets add another cmdlet into the mix.

get-process * | stop-process

This isn’t a very hard syntax to decode, if you hadn’t notice yet, the pipe command is the “|” character.

Essential what we would be doing is using a stop-process command on each process. Not vary smart thing to do but you can also do something like a foreach loop and target specific processes to either stop or start them with a single line of code.

The built in help has some good infomation on pipelines, type this into your shell.

get-help about_pipeline

Additional help can be found from the PowerShell Team,
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/

USB/IP Project

Just learned about this tool and it looks pretty cool.  Go over here for more infomation: http://usbip.sourceforge.net/

The project is released under a GNU GPLv2.

You can browse the source code here: http://usbip.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/usbip/

Also can get it via svn co https://usbip.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/usbip usbip

I’ve only just read a little bit about it but it looks like it’s written c++ or c.  The source’s included read me has some good information if your willing to read it.

Citrix Learning Videos

These videos are all hosted on citrix’s website.  I’m in the process of going through them now and collected most of the links to quickly hammer them out.  There are re-post of links in different sections, you can also visit http://support.citrix.com/product/ to find them and other resources like white-papers and best practices.

A Moore Machine

I think someone found my blog today by Googling for a Moore machine example in C#, lol.  I will admit a Moore machine is the best kind of machine, no offense Turing and f%*k Mealy.  As for explanation of what’s a Moore machine your SOL, even I don’t have the time or energy to try present this one but here are few resources to get you going.

SlimDX Resources

I just took a quick look at SlimDX.  Here are two blogs about on using SlimDX in C#