Category Archives: Books
Solitaire Cryptosystem in “Cryptonomicon”
For the past two or three weeks, I’ve been reading Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, a novel published in 1999. Much of the story in the novel concerns cryptography, and page 480 contains a Perl script that can be used to encrypt … Continue reading
Book Review: Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL
Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, 2nd Edition, was written by Hugh E. Williams and David Lane and published by O’Reilly in May, 2004. I purchased this book in 2005 when I was doing some consulting for a microarray … Continue reading
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Beginner’s Greek, by James Collins
In the February 24, 2008, edition of the New York Times Book Review, James Kaplan reviews Beginner’s Greek by James Collins. Part comedy of manners, part chick lit in male drag, James Collins’s “Beginner’s Greek” is a great big sunny … Continue reading
