Wandering Thoughts archives

2006-12-29:	What can go wrong if your compiler is not thread aware
2006-12-25:	The problem with `#ifdef`
2006-12-22:	Another example of why Bourne shell quoting makes me grumpy
2006-11-15:	A little regexp thing to remember about \b (and \w) Why the Bourne shell is not my favorite language
2006-11-02:	Knowing things versus being able to prove them
2006-10-30:	A brief Exim observation
2006-10-26:	Languages need comments
2006-10-13:	Why quoting in the Bourne shell makes me grumpy
2006-09-26:	Why people still like TCL/TK
2006-09-14:	A bonus to writing documentation
2006-09-04:	A thought about interactive development environments
2006-08-22:	`fork()`, `wait()`, and threads
2006-08-16:	The fun of 32-bit bugs
2006-08-13:	The real Bourne shell problem
2006-08-10:	A Bourne shell gotcha: redirection order
2006-08-06:	A fun little regular expression bug
2006-07-25:	An `awk` idiom: getting fields backwards from the end of the line Reading Unix manpages
2006-07-18:	Why you can't mix wildcard IP port binding with other bindings
2006-07-06:	More on tabs
2006-07-05:	On tabs
2006-06-22:	An extreme example of C preprocessor (ab)use
2006-06-20:	How to improve programming productivity
2006-05-31:	Fiddling with X selections from shell scripts
2006-05-25:	SCGI is a form of caching
2006-05-14:	A small user interface suggestion
2006-05-07:	SCGI versus FastCGI
2006-04-08:	A common socket programming mistake: not handling short IO
2006-04-04:	Why I don't like resorting to caching
2006-03-28:	Using threading to implement a 'busy' cursor (a tale from long ago)
2006-03-23:	Side effects are bad: a personal illustration
2006-03-20:	An optimization thought
2006-03-18:	Some little things Firefox gets right
2006-03-10:	Why dynamic linking The dynamic linking tax on `fork()`
2006-02-13:	GNU bc for the birthday paradox
2006-02-10:	Session IDs and the Birthday Paradox
2006-01-18:	A portability gotcha with `accept()`
2006-01-05:	Is concurrency 'hard'?

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