Category Archives: Programming

How do you sort your cloths?

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Lee

According to the massively credible spammers on Facebook, the following is a common question asked by Google interviewers to interviewees.

Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. It’s very difficult to find a shirt. What can you do to

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Javascript Syntax Highlighted Editor in 1Kb

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Lee

I’ve just written an edit in place syntax highlighter for Javascript. The cool thing about it is that it’s under 1Kb (1023 bytes to be exact xD). Here’s the code:

// Revised Edit-In-Place syntax editor still sits

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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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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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