Scala
At the risk of sounding like a programming language whore, here's yet another object-oriented functional language. This one looks less intimidating than Haskell or OCaml, since it is extremely Java-like and claims to interoperate...
Month: March 2007
It’s fun to workout at the YMCA
After a few trial visits, Nicole and I decided to join the East Valley YMCA. It's reasonably nearby, inexpensive, and the staff are very nice and helpful. Best of all for the geek in me is that their machines have this neat...
Autoproject
autoproject interviews the user, then creates a source package for a new program which follows the GNU programming standards. The new package uses autoconf to configure itself, and automake to create the Makefile. `make...
Gawkinet
Gawkinet: TCP/IP Networking with Gawk Hmmm.... Why? :-)
Stupid bird
A weird thing happened on the way to work yesterday. Driving up the 101 freeway, I saw a bit of commotion ahead of me and then swerved a bit to avoid a large bird standing there in the middle of the roadway. I figured that it...
Getting vanishing OS X desktop icons back
Just noticed that my desktop icons had disappeared on my PowerBook. I managed to fix it with: open -a /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app I guess Finder crashes sometimes and doesn't always restart itself.
Magic Ubuntu performance tip?
How often is is that you come across a simple tweak to your configuration file (/etc/hosts in this case) that claims to give you a noticeable performance increase, and with no discernable drawback? I was psyched to try this one...