The future of Ruby
Slides from a presentation from Ruby creator "Matz" about future enhancements in Ruby2 and Rite. Why Ruby Sucks: A presentation by Matz
Category: Programming
OpenCV FreeBSD port
It looks like the FreeBSD ports folks finally sorted out the troubles with the FreeBSD port for OpenCV that I submitted back in March of 2005 Problem Report ports/78473: OpenCV...
Ordered a Lego Mindstorms USB IR tower
Having built a simple Mindstorms robot, but not having the ability to program it, I bought a Lego Mindstorms USB IR tower on eBay. I can't wait for it to arrive so I can start messing around with RCX Code, NQC, brickOS (formerly...
GSK – A C library for writing clients and servers
A GLib-style C library for writing network clients and servers. Abstracts out sockets and event handling (select(), poll(), /dev/epoll, kqueue(), etc.) http://gsk.sourceforge.net/gsk-reference/...
Porting Command Line UNIX Tools to Mac OS X
This article is an interesting discussion of how Mac OS X differs from other Unices and what some of the considerations are when porting Unix software to Mac OS X. Some snippets of interest: dlopen, dlsym, dlclose, etc. not...
PyGTD
PyGTD, by Keith Martin, is an interesting little Python command-line program for GTD. You input your projects, tasks, and contexts into some specially formatted files and run this program and it spits out a todo.txt file which is...
Beej’s guides
Brian "Beej" Hall has written a couple of really useful guides on topics of interest to Unix programmers: Beej's Guide to Unix Interprocess Communication (IPC) - signals, pipes, FIFOs (named pipes), sockets, shared memory,...