Marty Kalin

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Chicago

I'm an academic in computer science (College of Computing and Digital Media, DePaul University) with wide experience in software development, mostly in production planning and scheduling (steel industry) and product configuration (truck and bus manufacturing). Details on books and other publications are available at

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Open Source Evangelist People's Choice Award Emerging Contributor Award 2019 Author Contributor Club Rust

Authored Content

Coding on a computer

An example of very lightweight RESTful web services in Java

Explore lightweight RESTful services in Java through a full code example to manage a book collection.

Open data brain

Getting started with hidden Markov models using Perl

A detailed walkthrough of these useful predictive programs.

computer screen

Data streaming and functional programming in Java

Learn how to use the stream API and functional programming constructs in Java 8.

metrics and data shown on a computer screen

How to use Protobuf for data interchange

Protobuf encoding increases efficiency when exchanging data between applications written in different languages and running on different platforms.

hands programming

WebAssembly for speed and code reuse

Find out how WebAssembly supplements JavaScript by providing better performance on compute-bound tasks.

A graduate degree could springboard you into an open source job

How to use OpenSSL: Hashes, digital signatures, and more

Dig deeper into the details of cryptography with OpenSSL: Hashes, digital signatures, digital certificates, and more

Authored Comments

mkalin@depaul.edu

26 Aug 2021

Code memory safety and efficiency by example

I agree--should always check whether the malloc returned NULL. Was trying to keep the 1st example simple, but shouldn't have avoided the check.

Marty

mkalin@depaul.edu

23 Aug 2021

Write a chess game using bit-fields and masks

A fun read, nice use of the power that C provides.