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Update: Tackling a large volume of simple problems in an Open Source project

2024-01-20

Last time on “Tackling a large volume of simple problems in an Open Source project“, your hero left off with 263 endpoint items needing to…

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Tackling a large volume of simple problems in an Open Source project

2024-01-13

Hello again! I’ve been contributing to a really helpful Rust crate by @xampprocky called “octocrab”. I started using this module first because it’s hands-down the…

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Gist of the Day: Named Capture in Perl Regular Expressions (Briefly)

2014-01-17

One of the largest critiques I see about regular expressions is that they lack readability. Well, in Perl 5.10 named capture was added (http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html) which…

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Gist of the Day: Playing with Forks

2014-01-16

Parallel processing is all the rage these days, and life has me at a point where I’m needing to use it. I am having to…

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Gist of the Day: Using Mojo, Mongo, and SL4A to send SMS Messages (1 of 2)

2013-09-18

I got a little bored with what I had been posting (I suspect you did, too), so I’m doing something neat. I’m going to write…

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Gist of the Day: C Structs from Binary Files Using Perl

2013-09-15

Hi, did ya miss me? I’m blogging from O’Hare today, it’s going to be a busy week for me with lots of air travel. That…

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Gist of the Day: Find All Paths for an Undirected Graph

2013-09-14

I’ve been doing a lot of stuff lately with data structures and algorithms. This is one that seemed remarkably complicated to me – and still…

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Gist of the Day: Re-Inventing Hashes… In Perl.

2013-09-12

Before you begin the well-deserved flaming, please understand that I do not intend on submitting this to CPAN. This is purely an academic exercise to demonstrate…

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Gist of the Day: Process Control with fork(), exec(), and kill()

2013-09-11

I feel really bad for leaving you all high and dry yesterday… really bad… okay, you’re right, I don’t really feel all that bad. I…

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Gist of the Day: Simple Tree in Python

2013-09-09

I biked a bunch tonight, and worked a bit late, and then watched Torchwood on Netflix… so, sorry for slacking. Here’s the Gist of the…