Retro Programming

An exe packer is a utility to reduce the size of executable files. It compresses a program and creates a new program with the compressed dat...

While lurking in the #forth  channel on irc.freenode.net I was pointed to an interesting problem from the Gforth tutorial. The problem is to...

BF Joust is a capture the flag programming game based on the esoteric Brainf*** programming language. Recently ais523 revised the language a...

For a while I've been promising to take a closer look at Dennis Luehring's list of programming games  to select a few for further in...

In The Recursive Universe , William Poundstone uses Conway's Life as a vehicle to explore complexity theory and modern physics. Poundsto...

One of the best ways to get to know someone is to look at their bookshelf. -- Kathy Sierra Here's a quick look at the programming sectio...

Here are a couple of pictures of my latest toy, the Arduino Duemilanove microcontroller. It's equipped with 16K flash memory, 1K SRAM an...