Category: Programming

Great Hackers

A great essay from Paul Graham. He says some controversial things, but my sense is that he's right about many of them. Like how hackers don't wanted to be managed by non-hackers and how hackers want interesting problems and abhor...

ProgrammingTiVo

Some binaries I compiled now available in All-In-One S2 Utilities

AlphaWolf announced a new version of the AIO S2 utilities. Among other things, it includes my builds of ldd, lsof, pstree, and rgrep. DealDatabase Forum - Deals, Freebies, and TiVo & DirecTivo Hacking - All-In-One S2 utilities...

GeneralPerlProgramming

Got Zoidberg working

After quite a bit of futzing around, I got Zoidberg working. I had mentioned here that I had installed it, but that the cd command wasn't working. Well, here's what I did... (more…)...

PerlProgramming

Zoidberg – a modular perl shell

I'm playing around a bit with: Zoidberg - a modular perl shell The idea of having a shell that allows Perl-syntax is interesting. The problem I am having right now is that the "cd" command doesn't work. That one is kind of a...

C++Programming

C struct initialization and strptime bug

I wrote some code to use strptime to parse a human-readable time string into a struct tm and I had a bug where the struct had the hour one hour in the past, which suggested a daylight savings time (dst) problem. After puzzling...

ProductivityProgramming

Developer Todo

Interesting little program for maintaining todo lists: freshmeat.net: Project details for Developer Todo I gave it a quick spin and it's nice, but I've been pretty happy with using TWiki for managing tasks, plus it doubles as my...

ProgrammingRants

accretive design => headaches

Somebody summed up my thoughts succintly today about a particular piece of software that I had been playing with: "accretive design => headaches". He also pointed out that "accretive design" is an oxymoron, which I also think...