Category: Programming

Mac OS X programming question

Is it possible to use DYLD\_INSERT\_LIBRARIES without using DYLD\_FORCE\_FLAT\_NAMESPACES (which has nasty side effects)? I wanted to use the former for a port of tsocks (which needs to intercept socket calls) but I've had to...

LinuxProgramming

Getting access to the printer device without sudo

Having recently discovered libinklevel and ink, I've been using them to check the status of the ink levels on my Canon i950 printer, connected via USB to my Ubuntu Feisty Fawn box. I've been having to run the ink command using...

LinuxProgramming

Patch to make libinklevel work with a Canon i950 printer

This weekend, while cruising freshmeat.net, I happened upon libinklevel, from Markus Heinz. From the description: Libinklevel is a library for checking the ink level of your printer on a system which runs Linux. It supports...

ProgrammingPythonRuby

links for 2007-07-22

The Eric Python IDE Eric is a full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in python. It is based on the cross-platform Qt gui toolkit, integrating the highly-flexible Scintilla editor control. (tags: python ide...

C++Programming

links for 2007-07-19

Simple Access Berkeley DB Using STLdb4 | Linux Journal Berkeley DB comes with C and C++ APIs. Unfortunately, the C++ API is a thin wrapper neglecting modern C++ designs, such as smart pointers, I/O streams, iterators, operator...

JavaProgramming

Make “Duke’s Bank” J2EE demo app work on JBoss 4.2.0.GA

I was trying to learn a bit about JBoss AS by following their Getting Started doc/tutorial. When I got up to Chapter 4, which involves building and deploying the "Duke's Bank" application from Sun's J2EE tutorial to JBoss, I ran...

LispProgrammingScheme

Accessing the Yahoo Web Search API from MzScheme

A bit of Scheme code that I was dorking around with a long time ago and never got around to posting. This probably only works in MzScheme since it uses implementation-specific APIs to do HTTP. Here's an example of using it:...