Author: nikhil.kuria

How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker: A Study in Software Security

How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker: A Study in Software Security

Originally appeared on Developer.com; September 1999

Poker is a card game that many people around the world enjoy. Poker is played at kitchen tables, in casinos, and cardrooms — and more recently, the Web. A few of us here at Reliable Software Technologies play poker. Since many of us spend a good amount of our days online, it was only a matter of time before some of us put the two interests together.

RegEx to match Java Comments

RegEx to match Java Comments

Most(if not all) of the regular expressions a developer needs is already available. There are numerous resources online ranging from blogs and even an ever growing library. Not to mention the endless discussions on stackoverflow.

Few days back, I had lost the sources to a project and had to decompile them from the original build. Did not expect the decompiler to throw in so much comments.

The Buendia Family Tree as a Neo4j graph – Tribute to Gabo

The Buendia Family Tree as a Neo4j graph – Tribute to Gabo

One of the most significant and prominent authors passed away last fortnight – Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I read One Hundred Years of Solitude during my senior college years. Magical Realism has long been associated with the vernacular literature in my home state.