Every software engineer has been told a million times by salty old college professors, or by senior programmers, to always write good hashing functions. We all know that good hashes are critical to writing efficient searches and that if a hashing function produces too many collisions, the search efficiency can degrade from constant-time performance to linear-time performance. Ouch.
Recently, Charles Petzold blogged about a new Microsoft specification called CSAML, which uses XML to directly specify C# parse trees.
Brilliant.
This timely topic is actually very close to my heart. In parallel to the work Petzold has been doing, I’ve been simultaneously working on an XML specification for describing the contents of an XML file. It’s called XXMLDL (eXtensible XML Description Language).
I think you’re going to like it.
Last year, my good friend Daryn Tufts wrote and starred in a new movie called Stalking Santa.
I may be a little bit biased because he’s my friend, but still, the movie is hilarious and I fully expect it to become a big hit this winter.
Anyhow, this weekend, Stalking Santa premiers at the Vail Film Festival, in (of course) Vail, Colorado.
Watch the Stalking Santa trailer.
Check out the Vail Film Festival website and take a look at the screening schedule.
Congratulations, Daryn!!!
