Wandering Thoughts archives

2012-12-22:	Packaging in compiled versus interpreted languages
2012-12-19:	Part of good awk programming is getting the clause order right
2012-11-30:	My new view on why you need to profile code
2012-11-04:	Your logs should always include IP addresses (in addition to hostnames) Good and bad formats for your log messages
2012-10-30:	How I am doing randomized read IO to avoid ZFS prefetching
2012-10-27:	The difference between cryptographic and normal random number generators
2012-10-26:	Thinking about an unusual sequence
2012-10-24:	Why you should support 'reload' as well as 'restart'
2012-10-22:	Why parsers matter
2012-09-29:	What I would like in colour-specification interfaces
2012-09-25:	The jaundiced C programmer's view of object orientation
2012-08-31:	A realization about one bit of test-driven development
2012-08-24:	The theoretical right way to check if an account is in a Unix group
2012-08-22:	My view on the understandability of language idioms
2012-08-09:	Learning something from not testing jQuery 1.8's beta releases
2012-07-25:	My dislike for what I call 'perverse Test Driven Development'
2012-07-24:	Unicode's two new problems
2012-06-28:	Why I don't like implicit string interpolation
2012-06-27:	One root of my problem with GNU Emacs
2012-06-24:	My take on fancy editors for programming
2012-05-24:	Today's Mercurial command alias: a short form `hg incoming`
2012-05-23:	Some notes on using XFT fonts in TK 8.5
2012-05-17:	The Go language's problem on 32-bit machines
2012-04-29:	My two approaches to learning (programming) languages
2012-04-11:	Faking (or not) a ternary if operator with `&&` and `\|\|`
2012-04-10:	Revisiting checksum functions
2012-04-06:	Checksums and hashes
2012-03-16:	Parsing versus rewriting: how to tell them apart
2012-03-09:	Why you do not want to patch your source code in place
2012-03-01:	A trick for dealing with irregular multi-word lines in shell scripts
2012-02-20:	My view of where TCL went wrong
2012-02-16:	Handling modern IPv6 in programming environments
2012-01-24:	Why I use `exec` in my shell scripts
2012-01-22:	My view of the purpose of object orientation
2012-01-21:	The C juggernaut illustrated

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