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PHP/SMS Article Published In php|architect
Over the past few months I have been developing a free method of sending and receiving SMS messages via PHP. As I continued to add features and turn the method into a library, I found more and more uses to connect my site to my phone. I talked with a number of individuals [...]
Computer Science vs. IT

A discussion of the differences between Computer Science and Information Technology (IT). I tried to be as neutral as possible and covered the strengths and weaknesses of both fields.

Protein Folding Simulation

Given a sequence of amino-acids (sometimes given as DNA bases which are simply converted to codons and then amino-acids), what is the structure of a protein after a given time? This article investigates some methods used to figure out this 50 year-old problem.

Cryptography
I wanted to talk about what I have learned from this book and spent the last few weeks discovering on my own. I’ll start with what most web-developers are used to: password storage. Any PHP or ASP programmer is familiar with the common one-way hash functions as MD5 and SHA. Both have undergone thorough mathematical benchmarks for reversibility and brute-forcing and are trusted by most everyone.