I am a software engineer.
I live in the UK and currently work for DeviantArt.
This blog lets me vent some of the tech junk that is always on my mind. If it does nothing else
I consider it a courtesey to my wife.
You should note the date on anything you read here. There are things written here in the past that I leave for historical purposes rather than because they remain accurate or even consistent with my current opinions.
In case it's not obvious, this is my personal blog. The views expressed on these pages are mine alone and not those of my employer.
I mentioned a while back that I had found the lecture videos and notes for MIT's Introduction to algorithms course on Peter Krumins' blog. I'm still watching them, and they keep getting better.
I don't have anything particularly sophisticated to say about them other than being really impressed by Red-Black trees.
I've found the lectures have not only taught me a lot of things my formal education has lacked regarding algorithms, but it has helped change the way I view problems and enhanced my analytical skills, even without the problem sets, recitation, and "quizzes". You can probably see that by my over-analysis of a simple JS algorithm in my last post.
If you are interested in programming and you didn't learn this stuff at Uni, (or even if you did) I'd highly recommend the lectures once again