Archive for January, 2006
Learn more about the heart
After reading this site, I learnt some valuable lessons about different heart surgeries and the symptoms of heart problems. It makes me realize how complex heart diseases are, and how creative the doctors whom invented heart surgery such as balloon valvotomy are. No wonder heart surgeons are so well respected.
http://www.clevelandclinic.org/heartcenter/pub/guide/tests/procedures/default.asp?firstCat=3&secondCat=267&thirdCat=427
Secure Coding in C and C++ by Robert C Seacord
It addresses the security concerns with C and C++ by providing many exploit examples, such as buffer overflows with strings and mallocs, and the mitigation strategies. Most programmers fail to implement the required logics to ensure the code is secure. Further worsening the problem is the lack of type-safety with C. Therefore I recommend [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )香港會計人才荒
香港會計界鬧「人才荒」﹐加拿大沒嘅 ﹖
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/060108/10/1k850.html
Sudoku solver in C using backtracking
A 9×9 sudoku solver in C. The algorithm incorporates backtracking. Backtracking is a great technique to use when the problem is NP complete and the state space isn’t huge. It takes only a few seconds to solve a hard 9×9 sudoku puzzle on a 1.4GHz machine. The program in txt can be found here. Sadly [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 7 so far )No pension for IBM newcomers
No pension for IBM new employees joining in 2006. That’s a huge benefit cut for newcomers. The link can be found here
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