Monthly Archives: July 2010

Woohoo

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Lee

Got myself a new Samsung Captivate :D

In other news:

(2) Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such

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Rocket: A Lua Sqlite3 ORM manager

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Lee

Relational databases are designed so that they can both store and describe data. Most programming level APIs do wonderful jobs of maintaining the former aspect. I mean, what ORM doesn’t automatically map the insert method to the so very generic…

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See.lua – Documentation

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Lee

See.lua – A Lua introspection library

	> see(string)

	.byte(?)            .char(?)            .dump(?)            .find(?)
	.format(?)          .gfind(?)           .gmatch(?)          .gsub(?)
	.join(self, table, ...)                 .len(?)
	.lower(?)           .match(?)           .rep(?)             .reverse(?)
	.sub(?)             .upper(?)

Lua is a wonderful little language that lets you do…

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How to fix the keyboard issues with Ubuntu Login

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Lee

If you have installed Ubuntu 10.x on vmWare, you will find that the default keyboard configuration does not let you type anything into the login box. This is a big issue since Ubuntu requires that your root user has a…

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see.lua – Introspecting Lua objects

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Lee

As via its python equivalent, see.lua takes in an object and prints out a list of its elements as well as metatable methods in readable text.

> require "see"

> s = see(string)
.byte(?)            .char(?)            .dump(?)            .find(?)

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Pydev: The Best Python IDE

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Lee

While I don’t usually advertise, I love eclipse for all of its feature rich implementations of language specific IDE’s. Among those is Pydev, a complete first class IDE for Python.
Recently, Pydev just hit version 1.6.0 (Congratulations!) with the…

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Python: Self references in List comprehension

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Lee

One of the great abilities in Python that is copied over from Haskell is the ability to construct lists from other lists or iterators inline. This is of course limiting in certain cases where self references are necessary. For example,…

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strcpy() implementation in C/C++

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Lee

One of our ubiquitous C functions can be rather easily recreated via C:

char* strcpy(char* other, char* self){
    while (*self) *other++=*self++;
    *other = '\0';
}

Note that C strings are null terminating, hence we create a…

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