Ozan (oz) Yigit (original) (raw)

electric: oz+at+cs+dot+yorku+dot+ca

The message that precedes all others -- in art as well as life -- is simple:
pay attention
[Harlan Ellison, intro to slippage, 1997]

i used to work at sun microsystems as a software engineer. my old blog brainstorms.
for now, i blog atbrainstorms [next bit].

a web page is always under construction. here iswhatsnew.

wily home

• I maintain the wily editor, a unix rewrite of rob pike's acme editor forplan 9.
• wily executable for Mac OS X
• a new win for wily
• Belorussian translation

photography

commodity, firmness, delight.

logo design

coming soon

pointers

software development

• Every programmer should have a copy of Kernighan & Pike's The Practice of Programming.
• A collection of non-cryptographic hash functions.
• Will Clinger's note onworking code, correct code, good code.
• Latest Scheme report (R^5RS) is here.
• Marsaglia's post on RNG's for C. Help stamp out bad RNGs.
• death of quicksort: see Doug McIlroy's SP&Epaper and associatedantiquicksort code.
• The UNIX-HATERS Handbook is here (originallocation.) a must read for those interested in a critical view of unix, and how things changed in a decade. a lot of food for thought, but probably no longer what UHH authors intended.

public source (some of my minor public-domain software pieces)

• sdbm (a rewrite of ndbm) (a java version ishere)note: apache project has a non-public-domain derivative. i have no idea why they felt appropriate to create such a derivative, but i am not pleased.
• basic regex (a rewrite of ed-based 4.3bsd regex)
• robust glob (with smarter char class handling) Some of my images
• plumblossom [public domain]
• l'escargot gaie (graphic)
• bell labs inferno (cartoon sketch)
• angora cat (64k, photo) Comics
• my favorite comic creature [by André Franquin]
• gaston lagaffe
• european comics
• lotman's animation art collection adopted public source

Some useful bits of software I have tinkered with. If they are here, they are public domain. Sorry, no certification marks or other artifical sweeteners. public source, as "open" as it gets.

• public-domain binProlog: free_prolog.0.1.tar.gz
• cleaned-up berkeley yacc: byacc.tar.gz
• (more to come) computer science hall of shame
• xml. to quote rob pike:_sometimes when you fill the vacuum, it still sucks._also see this note by david leonard.
• ant. see quote above. weep.
• mpeg-4: stop. pay toll.download. damaged goods. skip.
• windowsxp: attempting world domination with the leftovers from mediocre computer science.
• Unified Modeling Language. industrial strength, vigorous hand-waving at its best.
• worse is better!?given the amount of attention these peripheric, selectively clued essays have received, and the fame they have generated, one may have to agree with the cartoonish conclusion! Miscellaneous
• Berkeley Software Design
• OpenBSD
• University of Arizona Computer Science
• Scuba Diving - NAUI Online
• ScubaTimes
• New York Review of Science Fiction
• Harlan Ellison Webderland: The Harlan Ellison Homepage
• Tragically Hip

computing research and development interests

• programming languages, eg. awk, scheme, ml, newtonscript, oberon, ada, java, prolog, C, icon, snobol. a variant of my portable implementation of scheme (psi) used to power some of theSoftQuad products, likesculptor. It was the first industrial use of scheme as an extension language. i have also implemented [for one reason or another] a number of languages including prolog, m4, a ratfor-like pre-processor for vms dcl, and gdmo.
• firewalls, network protocols.
• protocol design and verification (seespin for one of the best tools in this area)
• literate programming.
• operating systems eg. Plan 9[now open-sourced, getting real-world exposure]openbsd etc. [i once knew vms internals.]
• profiling/benchmarking. I implemented & used random PC sampling as a way to examine operating system behaviour (VMS kernel) more than a decade before a version of the idea waspublished by DEC ultrix group.
• regular expressions, external hashing, amortized algorithms.
• software tools.
• software change and build management, eg.dtree.
• systems administration.

about books

now reading (or rereading)

[tbd]

book lists

• John Mashey's book lists circa 1991. [comp.arch,comp.benchmarks]
• an out-of-date reading list for software (networking, firewalls) developers. i'm happy to report that the second edition of firewalls and internet security is out, and is excellent.
• articles on content protection, open-source, intellectual property etc. some of my capsule bookreviews.

favorite bookstores

• Sleuth of Baker Street
  possibly the finest mystery bookstore on the planet.
  1600 Bayview Avenue
  Toronto, On
  Canada M4G 3B7
  tel: 416-483-3111 fax 416-483-3141
  web site just starting. see here
• BakkaScience Fiction, Fantasy and Horror since 1972
  598 Yonge Street
  Toronto M4Y 1Z3
  ph [416] 963 9993
  fx [416] 963 9112
  bakkaphoenixbooks.com
  bakka book reviews (1996)

nikon

These pages are gratefully adopted from Unklbil(Bill Briggs, CWO-2 USN (retired)).

• Nikon Lens Nomenclature
• Macro Photography - Getting Closer and Bigger
• MF/AF Bodies - Lens Compatibility (with specification sheets)
• DOF and Hyperfocal Calculator

various

links to some of my family, friends and teachers.

some of my papers are here.

some quotes.

some political thoughts.

rules

ozan's unnumbered rule:

anyone who teaches and practices in a field still in its infancy
has an informally specified, ad-hoc and bug-ridden collection of rules
that often amuse but rarely enlighten.
[see greenspun's tenth rule for an example]

useful advice

Almost as much time can be wasted reading web pages as constructing them. Get back to work!

stats

ipod: 17 genres, 227 artists, 107 albums, 1581 songs, 7.18 gb

litera scripta manet ars sine scienta nihil est.