New Toy!
Fujitsu LT C-500, the best tablet 2001 had to offer. Bought for a side project to replace a paper form-based system using a tablet PC, python, libqt4... more »
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My first week of Python
Some stuff on my latest side project, doing a bit of data munging and PDF generation with sparklines and other graphics for my rifle club using... more »
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Emacs FAIL
Tried to learn enough emacs to do some PHP work. Spent a week in emacs configuration hell, and never got to within spitting distance of a workable... more »
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Vim user starts trying to learn Emacs
First thing I have to figure out is what the emacs equivalent to command mode and edit mode are…
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DadHacker
If war stories of things like shaking wire-wrapped boards to make the assembler code work right; combined with a degree of pragmatism towards... more »
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Implementing HAT-Tries in Java
Implementing the HAT-Trie data structure in Java using the Cache Concious Hash Table structure.
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Problems with Ubuntu's Hardy Heron
Ubuntu's Hardy Heron release has a serious problem in a fairly fundamental subsystem - anyone who has any kind of monitor setup more complex than a... more »
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Tips for hiring new engineers
Six tips for hiring new engineers for a programming role, as seen from the applying engineers' point of view
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The case against passion
Programming is not all about passion. Passion is the antithesis of good programming. To claim (or even worse, to imply) that good programmers are... more »
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Cache Concious Hash Table
A short note about a cache concious hash table implementation that outperforms Sun's HashMap implementation by a factor of between two and three.
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