Bryce Boe

As a member of the Security Lab at UCSB I had the privilege to help create and run this year’s iCTF Hacking Competition. The six-year-old competition was very unique this year. Unlike CTFs seen before in which teams try to protect their services whilst attacking other teams’ services, our competition had teams deliver drive-by downloads [...]

I assisted in hosting the UCSB Programming Competition again this year. Doing so rekindled my love for dynamic programming algorithms, thus why I prepared an example similar to this one for my class and why I wrote this post.
In my own words, dynamic programming is a technique to solve a problem in which previous solutions [...]

The following is my python implementation of choosing N random lines with equal probability from a file. This implementation is both memory and time efficient unlike other solutions. This problem was originally brought to my attention after a friend was asked a similar problem at a Google interview. Additionally a few weeks ago I was [...]

What two posts within an hour? Yeah I originally had this following my previous one however the post was too long and I’ve decided my posts should try to stick to a single topic.
So whilst I was waiting for Ubuntu Fesity Fawn to download I started checking out the Django Project and wow I’m pretty [...]

I’ve been writing code in php for three years now, and within the last year discovered the python language. Without going into much detail I find myself utilizing python more so than php. I do have things I dislike about python (mainly its documentation as compared to php’s) but for the most part it [...]

November 11th I’ll be participating in the Southern California Regional ACM programing competition. This is my second time competing as well as Adam’s. One of our practice problems involved finding if a wall blocks the path between two points. At the time the only way I could think of doing this involved solving [...]