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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 lots of air travel. That…
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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 to me – and still…
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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 an academic exercise to demonstrate…
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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 feel all that bad. I…
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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. Here’s the Gist of the…
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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 (I still have three miles…
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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 an interview question one time.…
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Gist of the Day: Analyzing Performance with Benchmark.pm
In my post on Inline::C a few days ago I mentioned The Rules of Optimization Club, and then I ranted a little bit about how if you…
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Gist of the Day: Some convenience macros for use with Perl C internals
I feel awful. Like, really awful. The baby is sick, my partner is sick, I am sick. You still want something neat though, so I’m…
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Gist of the Day: Inline::C in Perl
I like Perl and I like C (most of the time), and sometimes I like to mix the two. The two main reasons I might…