Category: Programming

PHP

I wanted to get remote compiles going in Emacs because I wanted to work in Aquamacs on my Mac. In terminal mode, a lot of keys don't work like in particular Control + the arrow keys and in X11, I lose my Emacs session every time...

Perl

Perl is evil

What other language would let you do this? ''=~( '(?{' .('`' |'%') .('[' ^'-') .('`' |'!') .('`' |',') .'"'. '\\$' .'==' .('[' ^'+') .('`' |'/') .('[' ^'+') .'||' .(';' &'=') .(';' &'=') .';-' .'-'. '\\$' .'=;' .('[' ^'(') .('['...

C++Programming

Smart pointers

A brief intro to smart pointers, covering both auto_ptr and the Boost smart pointers. Every C++ programmer should know what these are. If you don't, you owe it to yourself to spend some quality time with some good C++ books....

PerlPHPProgrammingPythonRuby

Komodo, a Komodity

ActiveState Komodo is a programmer's IDE for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows that is tailored for programming with a number of dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl. I came across this post the other day which...

PalmProgramming

Embeddable scripting with Lua

A nice introduction to the Lua programming language from IBM developerWorks: Embeddable scripting with Lua I really like the simple and clean syntax of Lua. A while back I had been playing with Plua (Lua for PalmOS), but I...

Programming

Let’s play Croquet

Every time I see something about Smalltalk, I see references to Croquet (and Seaside, but Croquet even more it seems). I finally decided to see what it is today. It's built on Squeak (a popular free Smalltalk implementation) and...