Geek thoughts

Small update: You can see the code live here if my computer is online.
The “new” Javascript libraries ease the use of AJAX a lot: With these two simple code snippets

(A simple Servlet for searching through /usr/share/dict/words and a simple jQuery/Javascript -Script) I was able to create an autocompletion form in a few minutes:

I want to play around a bit with modern web technologies and JavaScript (AJAX, JQuery, JavaScript in general) and was in need of a webserver. Since all I found where either difficult to setup or quite complex to configure (and I was bored so wanted something to hack, too) I implemented my own small and [...]

Finally I found some really mean bugs and I’ve learned again that in 99.9% of the time the source of the bug is neither the JVM, the language or the algorithm but the person in front of the computer ;-). The (non-parallel!) implementation of Barnes-Hut runs for ca. 77 seconds where the standard all-pairs algorithm [...]

At the moment I’m implementing the Barnes-Hut O(n log n) algorithm for n-Body problems. This will be my initial point for further research on some special parallel aspects of it.

(Screenshot of a visualization of the Barnes-Hut Quadtree and Center of masses)