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Gist of the Day: Named Capture in Perl Regular Expressions (Briefly)
One of the largest critiques I see about regular expressions is that they lack readability. Well, in Perl 5.10 named…
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Gist of the Day: Playing with Forks
Parallel processing is all the rage these days, and life has me at a point where I’m needing to use…
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Gist of the Day: Using Mojo, Mongo, and SL4A to send SMS Messages (1 of 2)
I got a little bored with what I had been posting (I suspect you did, too), so I’m doing something…
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Gist of the Day: C Structs from Binary Files Using Perl
Hi, did ya miss me? I’m blogging from O’Hare today, it’s going to be a busy week for me with…
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Gist of the Day: Find All Paths for an Undirected Graph
I’ve been doing a lot of stuff lately with data structures and algorithms. This is one that seemed remarkably complicated…
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Gist of the Day: Re-Inventing Hashes… In Perl.
Before you begin the well-deserved flaming, please understand that I do not intend on submitting this to CPAN. This is purely…
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Gist of the Day: Process Control with fork(), exec(), and kill()
I feel really bad for leaving you all high and dry yesterday… really bad… okay, you’re right, I don’t really…
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Gist of the Day: Simple Tree in Python
I biked a bunch tonight, and worked a bit late, and then watched Torchwood on Netflix… so, sorry for slacking.…
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Gist of the Day: Threading in Python with All the Trimmings
Today I took on a rather ambitious Gist, and as a result the write-up is going to be rather minimal…
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Gist of the Day: Ends in Four
Sometimes we have a simple task to do and we over-think it. Such was the case when someone asked me…