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Welcome to 3void. I am Max Dupenois, a PhD student at the University of Exeter, there is more information about myself here page, but the interesting stuff is in the academic and projects sections.

The current research page has recently been updated and now shows some of the work I'm engaged in academically beyond just my thesis. - 05/04/2012

Below is the feed from the blog I run, it's mostly a stream of conciousness backup, hence braindump. Essentially code I need to remember my thinking behind in greater detail than comments allow and whatever else I think I may need to reference at a later date. The only reason it's on this page is I wanted to trial a PhP class for parsing rss streams, which appears to work.

Small Java Note 11:00 24 August, 2011
When running a program with a long loop it can be incredibly useful to have some sort of index counter or process indicator. Even if just as an assurance that the program hasn’t got stuck in an unending loop. Using something like: new Thread(new Runnable() {  public void run() {    int requiredWidth = Integer.toString([EndIndex]).length();    while(runningDescriptors){      String current = String.format("%0"+requiredWidth+"d", [...]

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Philadelphia state penitentiary 14:56 12 June, 2011
    Is awesome…

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Simple Java Argument Reader 14:50 01 April, 2011
For a lot of simple java applications using the ability to pass arguments in at the program start just makes a lot more sense than having a complicated input setup. However the argument still needs to be passed and if there are multiple options this can be a pain, code like an ArgsReader class help [...]

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Clean Query 16:19 14 March, 2011
In PhP the process for performing a mysql query can be torturous, making sure things are the correct type (numbers are actually numbers) and everything’s escaped properly etc. I got very very bored of repeating this sort of work so made a simple class with a very handy query function that I will now share [...]

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Abusing .htaccess 16:48 07 March, 2011
My name is Max, and I abuse .htaccess. The site to which this blog is attached uses .htaccess as part of its process and it serves 2 major purposes: I use it to mask the fact that it runs on PhP 1 Passes all requests to a single script which, based on the url, feeds [...]

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Mountains 13:51 05 March, 2011
Some pictures taken on my phone, posted without comment: Posted from WordPress for Android

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Trains 19:52 24 February, 2011
Strangely some of my best thinking is done on trains. Today, for example, I re-wrote sections of a thesis chapter; worked out a new classification nomenclature; solved some maths puzzles; completed a game of solitaire; and I also realised just how dull a journey can be. Seriously I’m relatively sure my brain made a break [...]

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