I read an article the other week talking about computer science students getting into trouble because they had "lifted" some code. I know that taking credit for someone else's work is wrong, but I have to admit that I lift code all the time. Why I steal code I do this for a couple of reasons. One is for consistency. If I am working in a … [Read more...]
A checksum use case
I was reading an article the other day about checksums. I touched on why you may want to use checksums briefly in my book and thought I would go into a little more detail in this blog post. A checksum is a binary or hexadecimal number derived from the contents of a file. If you want more details about what they are and how to create them I will … [Read more...]