Whilst chatting on the #minecraft channel on freenode, somebody comes out with:
<Dinnerbone> I love that 50% of thursdays are odd-numbered days <Dinnerbone> Makes the near-end-of-week that much more interesting
Which got me thinking... Are 50% of Thursdays on odd-numbered days? Probably not, at least not in every year. Some ...
Read more...Today I helped somebody in the Python IRC channel with a question about combining required, optional and multi-value positional arguments in Python's argparse module. This is actually pretty easy to do, but not immediately obvious, so here's the example I put together. I took hints from the first ...
Read more...Yesterday I found out first-hand how using a dynamically typed language can get you into trouble in unexpected ways whilst writing unit tests for CSF (my PHP framework).
Take a look at this code---what do you think it should do?
$foo = 'bar';
var_dump(isset($foo['xyz']));
var_dump($foo['xyz']);
Most ...
Read more...It's been no real secret that the .NET CLR (Common Language Runtime) has been Microsoft's answer to Java. Garbage collection, bytecode compilation, large set of core libraries, it's all there. But there is a problem that I've encountered recently: distribution size and install base.
A fairly ...
Read more...When re-theming DokuWiki to fit in with the general look-and-feel of my blog, I thought it would look good to have buttons with images relevant to what they did. Having created the necessary, CSS, I subjected it to my multi-browser test bed (actually a Windows XP virtual machine with the ...
Read more...A dominating story in the news recently has been that of UK Members of Parliament "abusing" the expenses system. As part of this, expense claims data has been released to the public, but unsurprisingly not in a simple CSV format that just anybody can play with. All I could find ...
Read more...While developing CodeScape Framework I came up with a simple template engine that instead of implementing it's own language just provided some structure-related hooks, and I've now got around to separating out and releasing Tpl, a simple, self-contained, hierarchical template engine for PHP.
Tpl's role is centred ...
Read more...Recently I've been working on a program that will let me do a full-text search of my 1500-file digital video library. The result is something I've unimaginatively called "VDB", short for "Video Database".
This release doesn't do much; you can add your library of video files, and ...
Read more...Refactoring some code at work today, I came across a classic example of somebody attempting to use one language like another. The project in question is a port from MATLAB to C, and the purpose of the function is to see if a square matrix is symmetrical within a certain ...
Read more...Here's a simple macro I came up with a few weeks ago for easily defining linked list types in C:
#define LINKED_LIST(type, name) \
struct name ## _ { \
struct name ## _ * next; \
type data; \
}; \
typedef struct name ## _ name;
Usage is simple:
LINKED_LIST(int, int_ll);
gives the same type as ...
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