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Random nerdy food for thought.
I've been thinking - a lot - lately about how few programmers actually take the time to learn how their language of choice works. I mean, it's understandable for those using languages (*cough* Visual Basic *cough*) that … -
Poco
Lately I've been thinking that while Python's got its standard bag of goodies, as does Java, PHP, Perl, and C#, C++ has been missing out on a lot of love from the community. Granted, it has the Standard Template Library… -
nifty libraries, miscellaneous findings
Just stumbled across MySQL++, thanks to my iGoogle's "Interesting Items for You" gadget. It's essentially the C++ equivalent of MySQLdb in Python, and it quite frankly rocks. I'm seriously thinking about putting togethe… -
quick update
Just released the v0.1, extremely alpha parser. It's here. Uses pcre and pcre++ for some nifty, awesome regex support, as frankly, the other regex libraries suck donkey balls. I included static libs for them in both the… -
miscellaneous ramblings
Latest version of Firefox appears to render pages / process javascript faster than Swiftweasel.I2P looks quite interesting.FreshMeat is still one of the coolest sites in the world, and worthy of a feed subscription.I've … -
think wild, be happy coma!
I'm relaxing. Did around 50 minutes on the recumbent bike today, went for 20 miles/700 calories and watched Avater: The Last Airbender. Bear did 30 minutes on the elliptical, 20 or so on the ab and back unit. She's a mac… -
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Nice database library
Found this nifty library while browsing freshmeat: libSDB - as noted on their site, it "provides a way to support multiple database management systems in an application with negligeable overhead, in terms of code as well… -
gawk extensions - part II
UUID extension is finished, will be making the google project soon. sqlite will take a bit longer, as I got sidetracked with adding syntactic sugar to gawk - primarily ctype wrappers, but a few nifty things (like traceba… -
gawk extensions
I'm writing some dynamic extensions for gawk. One to easily generate UUID's, and one to create/manipulate an sqlite3 (i.e., what Firefox 3 uses) database. The API is pretty neat. The code will be in C, and be BSD license…
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Random nerdy food for thought.
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