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Kyle Dent

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Postfix author, software developer.

Areas of Expertise:

  • software development
  • Java
  • Perl
  • Linux
  • Postfix
  • natural language processing
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing

Biography

Kyle D. Dent currently works at PARC (formerly Xerox PARC) where he is focused on creating novel technologies that help people interact with information, and uses cognitive scientific techniques to model and evaluate this interaction. Before joining PARC in 2008, Kyle worked for Hewlett-Packard as a software architect. He is the author of Postfix: The Definitive Guide published by O'Reilly in 2003. Kyle has a M.F.A in film from the University of Miami, and a M.S. in computer science from the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science. He maintains the web site http://www.seaglass.com/ containing scripts and information on system administration and software development.

Books

Postfix: The Definitive Guide Postfix: The Definitive Guide
by Kyle Dent
December 2003
Print: $34.95
Ebook: $27.99

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BigShot Camera Educates with DIY

November 13 2009

Shree Nayar, chair of Computer Science at the Columbia University has created BigShot, a digital camera kit for kids from eight years old and up to construct their own digital cameras. The purpose of the camera is primarily education, and testing indicates that it does a good job at that,… read more

Recursively edit files with sed

August 11 2009

Well duh, that's exactly what sed is designed to do. And nowadays most implementations have the handy -i option that makes changes in place without explicitly using an interim file. Which means that I could reduce the work of typing in the Perl script to a single line at the… read more

Obscuring Email Addresses Actually Works

July 25 2009

I've always wondered if obscuring email addresses on web pages does any good, for example writing "bob at example dot com" instead of displaying the actual email address. It turns out it does read more

Technology Innovation Site Will Launch in the Fall

July 23 2009

The Henry Ford, the museum associated with Henry Ford and his company, will be launching a new web site focusing on recent innovation and the people who make it happen. read more

Using Ajax and Search Referrer Info to Help Users Navigate Your Site

July 22 2009

Using the referrer URL to detect what brought users to your site can let you help them find what they're looking for. The almost magical asynchronicity of Ajax lets you provide additional content for users from search engines. It requires only minor changes to your site and doesn't affect the… read more

Postfix Postscreen to Increase Your SPF (Spam Protection Factor)

July 07 2009

Postfix is about to add a new tool to the anti-spam arsenal called "postscreen" for now, but the name is likely to change before it goes into a production release. Among other things postscreen detects when a client starts talking before it's supposed to. It's a daemon that accepts connections… read more

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