Month: April 2006

Emacs functions for toggling between “.” and “->” in C code

The first function simply toggles the characters at the point between "." and "->". Not terribly useful. The second function is a little more interesting. You can put the point by a struct-type variable which is or isn't a...

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A totally random FreeBSD tip

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Updating WordPress via Subversion

Following Scott Yang's nice post, I am now using a version of WordPress checked out from the Subversion 2.0 branch. It's quite nice to be able to update WordPress to the latest version simply by doing: (more…)...

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New toilet shut-off valve

A few weeks ago while installing a new fill valve in our toilet, I bent the rigid metal tubing that goes from the shut-off valve to the toilet a bit too much and it kinked and then broke. Unfortunately, the tubing and the...

GtDProductivity

TaskFreak: Another web-based GtD tool

I was over at import this and came across another GtD tool called TaskFreak. This one is written in PHP and looks simple but interesting....

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Key fob hack

I have one of those RSA key fob things that cycles randomly through numbers for authenticating to my company's VPN. Unfortunately, it's all too common for me to leave the thing at work or to leave it at home or to have it fall...

Common LispLispProgramming

Lisp and ASDF-Install

There's a pretty easy way to download and install a lot of Common Lisp software packages. It's called ASDF-Install. (more…)...