-
Archives
- February 2011
- July 2010
- March 2010
- April 2008
- March 2008
- August 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- November 2006
- October 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
- March 2005
- February 2005
- December 2004
- November 2004
- September 2004
- August 2004
- July 2004
- May 2004
- April 2004
- March 2004
- October 2003
- September 2003
- August 2003
- July 2003
- June 2003
- May 2003
- April 2003
- March 2003
- January 2003
- August 2002
- January 2000
- December 1999
- September 1999
- August 1999
- July 1999
- June 1999
-
Meta
Category Archives: coding
Such an insightful essay …
Paul Graham has impressed me time and again with his stunning insight. Whenever I read his writings, it’s as if he plucked his ideas out from my own head and then put pen to paper. His latest, Holding a Program … Continue reading
Posted in coding, programming, software, writing
Leave a comment
LinuxWorld 2006
LinuxWorld started yesterday here in rainy London and I had a great time! It was the first time ever that I wasn’t a visitor, but was helping out at the Jokosher stand. I did several demos of the app to … Continue reading
Posted in coding, computers, linux, podcasting, programming, python
Leave a comment
Doing quick tasks in Python
A lot of the time at work I have to come up with quick solutions to various programming problems, and I mean *real* quick. There is usually very little time for finding the right library or open source toolkit that … Continue reading
Posted in coding, computers, programming, python, scripting
Leave a comment
Ruby on Rails
“Rails is the most well thought-out web development framework I’ve ever used. And that’s in a decade of doing web applications for a living. I’ve built my own frameworks, helped develop the Servlet API, and have created more than a … Continue reading
Posted in coding, computers, software
Leave a comment
J2EE/EJB Persistence Frameworks
I need to start investigating alternative persistence frameworks whenever I get some free time. I’ve tried looking at Hibernate in the past but just couldn’t find the time to implement a small project properly in it and understand the benefits. … Continue reading
Posted in coding, computers
Leave a comment
Hiding the menubar on OS X
I’m quite fond of the Apple mailing lists, particularly java-dev and cocoa-dev. They’ve helped me solve quite a few problems on occasion. I once needed to hide the menubar on top of the screen in OSX and I found that … Continue reading
Posted in coding
Leave a comment
Teach Yourself … in 24 hours :)
Nice review of Linux Programming By Example on slashdot today. The book goes through the source of the Unix V7 code for the ls program. The second part then delves into processes, etc. I have a similar book at home, … Continue reading
Posted in coding
Leave a comment
Weather Parser
UPDATE: Sorry but this was written ages ago and the weather parser has stopped working now. I thought about keeping the code posted here but there is no point as it’s so outdated and there are so many newer methods … Continue reading
Posted in coding
Leave a comment
Code reviews and Peer Programming
Kasia has been trying out code reviews/pair programming at her work and I do tend to agree that code reviews should be done and that they probably result in better code, i.e. code that is less full of bugs We … Continue reading
Posted in coding
Leave a comment
JavaScript and Motif
Ok, so I kept almost true to my promise today. I studied JavaScript in the morning and I studied Motif in the evening. I also managed to watch a bit of Alien Resurrection in between. That’s an excellent movie. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in coding
Leave a comment
GTK or QT?
Today was Friday, our holy day, and of course I was sleeping until 12! The prayer was about to start in half an hour and I had to rush to take a shower, eat some breakfast (??) and get dressed … Continue reading
Posted in coding
Leave a comment