Category: Programming

autotut: Using GNU auto{conf,make,header}

Here's a nice little tutorial on the basics of how to use the GNU autoconf, automake, autoheader, and libtool tools: http://seul.org/docs/autotut/ Or if you'd rather get your hands on dead trees, then there's this book, which I...

ProgrammingWindows

Yahoo! Music Engine plugin project template for Visual C# 2005

This morning I posted a Yahoo! Music Engine plugin project template for Visual C# 2005. If you use Visual C# 2005 (including the Express Edition which is what I have), I hope you find this useful for writing plugins for Yahoo!...

GeneralPHP

Online PHP book

http://www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/ More PHP books from Amazon......

GeneralProgramming

valgrind issues in gd?

I ran valgrind on the "fontsizetest" program that comes with gd-2.0.33 and it came up with this warning: ==83135== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==83135== at 0x2D2E2424: gdCacheGet (gdcache.c:108)...

GeneralRuby

Ruby on Rails video

This short movie shows how easy it is to setup a new Ruby on Rails application: Ruby on Rails video Books on Ruby on Rails from Amazon.com...

GeneralProgramming

Possible character spacing bug in gd library

I think that I may have discovered a bug in character spacing that was introduced somewhere in between gd versions 2.0.28 and 2.0.33. This bug is not present in the gd bundled with PHP, which I am told by Rasmus is some kind of...

GeneralRuby

Setting up Ruby on Rails to work with Apache and FastCGI

Up until today, I had only been running Ruby on Rails apps inside the built-in WEBrick web server, which is really slow. Today, I set up my Rails apps to work with Apache. If you just run them as CGIs inside Apache, this is also...