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Auto-Upgrade to WordPress 2.9

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Mathias

I just performed an WordPress auto-upgrade to version 2.9. Version 2.9 requires MySQL version 4.1.2, and 1&1 was only running version 4.0.27. However, I found out that MySQL 5.0 is also running, so I needed to export the MySQL 4.0 … Continue reading →

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Snow

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Mathias

As someone who knows what snow actually is, I’m picky about what I call snow. When my fellow Houstonians say “it’s snowing”, I tend to say “no, this is sleet (@Apparently sleet is known as partially melted snow in the … Continue reading →

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Happy Thanksgiving

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Mathias

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I was fortunate to spend a wonderful day with Walid, Corky and Corky’s family. Thank you.

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Halting Problem in the Style of Dr. Seuss

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Mathias

I found a proof in verse of the undecidability of the halting problem, in the style of Dr Seuss, written by Geoffrey K. Pullum (@ I’m delighted that I have a reason to cite Pullum on my blog here, because … Continue reading →

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Legitimate Chase Email?

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Mathias

I received an email from Chase, and it seems to be legitimate, but gmail flags it as suspicious. No wonder, it contains the following link: www.Chase.com The domain cardmemberservices.com belongs to JPMorgan Chase as well, but it is not the … Continue reading →

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New ConcJUnit Annotations and Method Name Suffixes

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Mathias

I guess I should mention that I changed the ConcJUnit annotations (@Test) and method name suffixes (testFoo_NOJOIN) a little bit. I had noticed that putting a _NOJOIN suffix on a test method or using a @Test(forceThreadJoin=false) annotation entirely disabled the … Continue reading →

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AWT Exception Handler Cannot Be Reset After Exception

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Mathias

When testing ConcJUnit some more from inside DrJava, I noticed some weird behavior. I had a JUnit 3.8.2 version of a test, and an equivalent JUnit 4 version. Run independently, they behaved as expected (which in my line of work … Continue reading →

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Hudson Moved to Denmark

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Mathias

I just migrated our Hudson continuous integration server from my workstation (finland.cs, now a Dell Studio 435 with a 2.66 GHz i7 — thanks Corky!) to denmark.cs, a dedicated server (my former workstation, a Dell Dimension 9200 with a 3 … Continue reading →

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Updated CV and Resume

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Mathias

After attending an excellent workshop on converting CVs to resumes by the Rice Center for Student Professional Development, worked on improving my resume a bit. First of all, I created two versions, a shorter resume (pdf) and a longer, complete … Continue reading →

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Legal immigrants battle red tape

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Mathias

I noticed that the Houston Chronicle article I was interviewed for isn’t available on the Chronicle website anymore, so I wanted to re-post it on my blog. From the Houston Chronicle, Jan. 9, 2009: Legal immigrants battle red tape Pakistan … Continue reading →

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SIGCSE 2010 Paper Submitted

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Mathias

Now I’ll take a break, then I’ll proof-read it … Continue reading →

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Auto-Upgrade to WordPress 2.8.4

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Mathias

And another quick upgrade to WordPress 2.8.4 du… Continue reading →

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xkcd About Me?

Posted on August 9, 2009 by Mathias

Does Randall Munroe know me? Because this xkcd … Continue reading →

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Auto-Upgrade to WordPress 2.8.3

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Mathias

I just managed to do a WordPress auto-upgrade f… Continue reading →

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Long Overdue Update

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Mathias

It is the end of July already. The last time I … Continue reading →

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DrJava Automatic Update Feature

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Mathias

I just made a new DrJava development release. Y… Continue reading →

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Upgrade to WordPress 2.7

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Mathias

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.7. Everything se… Continue reading →

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“50 in 50”

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Mathias

"50 in 50"

A presentation by Richard Gabriel… Continue reading →

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Knocking on the Table

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Mathias

I’ve been listening to Deutsche Welle Radio a l… Continue reading →

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Integrity and Everything

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Mathias

I just wanted to mention two programs that I’ve… Continue reading →

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