Category Archives: Programming

sudo hints and ~/.hushlogin in debian or ubuntu

Posted on 2010-11-08 by

My work laptop runs Ubuntu Linux. After using Ubuntu for more than a month now, I can definitely agree that it is a really nice Linux distribution. Most of the things I have to do as part of my every-day … Continue reading →

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Then vs. Than

Posted on 2010-07-09 by

Scribd has many online books. I try to read at least one book every week. Starting to read a new book is always fun. The sense of anticipation builds up while the search for a new book is still in … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Computers, Γλωσσικά, Programming, Software, Typesetting, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Unit Testing Uncovers Bugs

Posted on 2010-03-09 by

As part of the ‘utility’ library in one of the projects we are using at work, I wrote two small wrappers around strtol() and strtoul(). These two functions support a much more useful error reporting mechanism than the plain atoi() … Continue reading →

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Parallel Downloads with Python and GNU Wget

Posted on 2010-01-19 by

GNU wget is a very useful utility that can download files over HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. Downloading a single file from a remote server is very easy. You just have to type: $ wget -np -nd -c -r http://server/path/to/file That’s … Continue reading →

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Distributed Development with Mercurial

Posted on 2010-01-11 by

Every clone of a Mercurial repository can act as a consistent, fully functional repository itself. This is a very useful property of a DVCS; one that you can take advantage of to make development a lot easier, especially for teams … Continue reading →

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Mercurial Clones without a Working Copy

Posted on 2010-01-11 by

Mercurial repository clones can have two parts: An .hg/ subdirectory, where all the repository metadata is stored A “working copy” area, where checked out files may live The .hg/ subdirectory stores the repository metadata of the specific clone, including the … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2010

Posted on 2009-12-08 by

Earlier tonight, on December 7 2009, a friend and me booked our flight tickets for FOSDEM 2010. I am really excited that I am going to attend another open source & free software conference. It has been a while since … Continue reading →

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Summary of MIT Lectures – Introduction to Algorithms

Posted on 2009-11-13 by

MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online. The lectures of many courses are available in video format, freely downloadable … Continue reading →

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fts(3) or Avoiding to Reinvent the Wheel

Posted on 2009-07-05 by

One of the C programs I was working on this weekend had to find all files that satisfy a certain predicate and add them to a list of “pending work”. The first thing that comes to mind is probably a … Continue reading →

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Dear Santa…

Posted on 2009-06-04 by

I know it’s a bit early for 2010, but can you please grant me a wish today and count it as one of the 2010 ones? For 2010 (and the rest of 2009) I wish I can keep up today’s … Continue reading →

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