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  GNU Make and Software Builds (51 articles)

July 2008: The Agile Cloud May 2008: Usman's Law March 2008: GNU Make user-defined functions, part 2 February 2008: GNU Make user-defined functions, part 1 February 2008: Software Builds and the Virtual Time Machine December 2007: GNU Make path handling October 2007: GMSL 1.09: A look inside the tweaks and updates September 2007: Makefile Debugging: An introduction to remake July 2007: Making the Move from Fragile to Agile July 2007: GNU Make escaping: a walk on the wild side July 2007: Software Production Management comes of age June 2007: Painless non-recursive Make May 2007: Atomic Rules in GNU Make 7 April 2007: Fast, Automatic Builds: the Agile Heartbeat April 2007: GNU Make meets file names with spaces in them March 2007: Debugging Makefiles February 8, 2007: The Agile Heartbeat: How Agile Development puts fast, automatic builds center stage and requires a new approach to software production February 2007: GNU Make's $(shell)/environment gotcha December 2006: Makefile Optimization $(eval) and macro caching November 2006: The pitfalls and benefits of GNU Make parallelization October 2006: Tips and tricks from the automatic dependency generation masters September 2006: Sorting and Searching August 2006: Target-specific and Pattern-specific GNU Make macros July 2006: Making directories in GNU Make June 2006: Rebuilding when a file's checksum changes May 2006: What's new in GNU Make 3.81 April 2006: Tracing rule execution in GNU Make April 2006: Dependency Management March 2006: Rebuilding when CPPFLAGS changes February 2006: Dynamic Breakpoints in the GNU Make Debugger December 15, 2005: Automation Turns Nightly Builds Into Espresso Break Builds December 2005: Adding set operations to GNU Make November 2005: What's New in GMSL 1.0.2 October 2005: An Interactive GNU Make Debugger October 2005: Solving the Dependency Problem in Software Builds August 2005: Makefile Assertions July 2005: The Trouble with $(wildcard) July 2005: Recursive Make Reloaded June 23, 2005: Book review of Managing Projects with GNU Make June 2005: GNU Make Gotcha ifndef and ?= March 2005: The GNU Make Standard Library February 2005: Learning GNU Make Functions with Arithmetic January 2005: Self-documenting Makefiles January 2005: Cross-Platform Builds December 2004: Learning Make with the Towers of Hanoi November 2004: Makefile Optimization $(shell) and := go together October 2004: Makefile Debugging: Tracing Macro Values September 2004: Setting a Makefile variable from outside the Makefile August 2004: The Trouble with Hidden Targets July 2004: Dumping every Makefile variable June 2004: Printing the value of a Makefile variable

  Miscellaneous Topics (28 articles)

October 4, 2010: The 100-year leap June 14, 2010: Calendar Geeks May 13, 2010: Project Gutenberg shines on the iPad April 27, 2010: Wikipedia trumps Britannica April 26, 2010: On Geeks and Gays April 21, 2010: The Facebook Cull April 2, 2010: Will the Orbit become London's Eiffel? March 22, 2010: Please stop with the -gate suffix March 10, 2010: An Olympic honour for Alan Turing March 3, 2010: A welcome bunch of amateurs February 16, 2010: How I made the Met Office admit its climate-change data was wrong December 28, 2009: Decoding Climate Change with perl, gnuplot and Google Earth September 17, 2009: How Alan Turing finally got a posthumous apology September 11, 2009: The real Turing test: learning to say sorry April 1999: Slipping through the Net April 1999: Add-ons to make your surfing more enjoyable April 1999: Yours, anon March 1999: There's a better way to browse March 1999: Cut your modem's flying time March 1999: Make your PC really sing February 1999: How to be a happy hunter February 1999: Got to get a message to you January 1999: Finding the errors in your way January 1999: Working it out: so you want to use the Net? January 1999: So you want to use the Net... January 1999: Attack of the Trojan Smurfs March 1998: Vercheck: Discovering Component Version Numbers April 1997: Push can be a Pig

  Security (6 articles)

November 2004: Practical, Secure Port-Knocking November 2004: Practical, Secure Port-Knocking July 2003: Bayes Theorem and Terrorism January 1993: Laws of Non-interference in CSP June 1992: Some Laws of Non-interference in CSP June 1991: On the Refinement of Non-interference (with JW Sanders)

  Spam and Anti-spam (36 articles)

September 20, 2007: The Spammers' Compendium: Five Years On May 2007: MIT Spam Conference 2007 November 2006: The rise and rise of image-based spam October 12, 2006: Unattended spam filtering using machine learning: implementation, deployment and lessons August 2006: SPUTR: a proposal for the uniform naming of spammer and phisher content tricks July 2006: Blinding POPFile via a single-word attack (coauthored with Olivier Guillion) June 2006: SpamOrHam March 2006: Spam-advertised Domain Names and the SURBL February 2006: Does Bayesian Poisoning exist? November 2005: Measuring and Marketing Spam Filter Accuracy October 2005: Pseudo-words for spam filtering in an unmodified Naive Bayesian Text Classifier October 2005: Book review of Ending Spam June 30, 2005: The TREC spam jig May 31, 2005: Understanding the SURBL service May 15, 2005: Build Your Own Bayesian Spam Filter May 2005: Naive Bayesian Text Classification April 30, 2005: Hash-based Anti-spam March 15, 2005: The Zucchini Method March 2005: Conference Report: Spam Conference 2005 February 28, 2005: Why I hate challenge/response February 16, 2005: SPF, Sender ID and DomainKeys January 31, 2005: Bounce Spams January 15, 2005: Cmabirgde Uinersvtiy Spam January 2005: A Spam Program's Techniques December 31, 2004: Greylisting Explained December 15, 2004: How to avoid spam November 30, 2004: The Bulk Email Tool Send-Safe November 16, 2004: Understanding Spam Filter Accuracy October 2004: The Waxing and Waning of Spammers' Trickery March 2004: Tricks of the Spammer's Trade March 2004: There must be 50 ways to say Viagra March 2004: The rise of CSS spam: everything old is new again March 2004: Spam and the non-delivery report November 2003: Fooling and poisoning adaptive spam filters August 2003: Getting your @ttention July 2003: Spam: a many rendered thing

  Travel (8 articles)

June 3, 2010: Sea, sand, sun and ... science: a geek holiday May 5, 2010: Starbucks is not a coffee shop April 20, 2010: The Silence of the Planes April 13, 2010: Long haul heaven April 13, 2010: Ode to the Number 11 bus April 13, 2010: The missing element in travel: science August 9, 2009: The top 10 geeky holiday spots June 14, 2009: Unleash your inner geek without spending a cent

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