Autoproject
autoproject interviews the user, then creates a source package for a new program which follows the GNU programming standards. The new package uses autoconf to configure itself, and automake to create the Makefile. `make...
Gawkinet
Gawkinet: TCP/IP Networking with Gawk Hmmm.... Why? :-)
Stupid bird
A weird thing happened on the way to work yesterday. Driving up the 101 freeway, I saw a bit of commotion ahead of me and then swerved a bit to avoid a large bird standing there in the middle of the roadway. I figured that it...
Getting vanishing OS X desktop icons back
Just noticed that my desktop icons had disappeared on my PowerBook. I managed to fix it with: open -a /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app I guess Finder crashes sometimes and doesn't always restart itself.
Magic Ubuntu performance tip?
How often is is that you come across a simple tweak to your configuration file (/etc/hosts in this case) that claims to give you a noticeable performance increase, and with no discernable drawback? I was psyched to try this one...
SD West 2007 Developer Bowl
On Thursday, I had the unique opportunity to represent Yahoo, along with 3 of my colleagues at the "Developer Bowl" at the SD West 2007 conference in Santa Clara, California. Basically it was a developer trivia game, with 4...
SD West
I went to SD West 2007 in Santa Clara today and it was pretty interesting. Most of the day was spent in two interesting half-day sessions on C++ design from Kevlin Henney: Programmer's Dozen: Thirteen Recommendations for...