A FISH SHELL installation resonantly led me down a wormhole of new information. Hyperlinks are the greatest thing ever invented – but can also be somewhat of a time consumer :-D I decided to install the fish shell. I’ve tried it before a long time ago, so thought it would Read more…
JANET IS A programming language that can be used for systems scripting or be embedded in other programs. For further details read more at the Janet site. My interest revolves around getting a portable language that could replace bash for scripting on a small arm based platform. This is the Read more…
CLOJURESCRIPT HAS BEEN something I’ve been following on the sidelines for quite a while now. Poking a bit around with React at work, let my interest towards Om.Next. Contemplating on creating my own web-app, I wanted to give this lispy thing a go. The Om.Next documentation led me to the Read more…
A SEARCH FOR BASH Scripting Alternatives TOC 1. Introduction 2. Not Meeting Criterias 3. Shells and Shell Languages 4. Scheme Languages 5. Scripting Languages 6. Finalists 7. Conclusion 8. Appendix Readers note: this blog post did not convert entirely correct to WordPress. Consider reading original edition at: https://github.com/monzool/A-Search-for-BASH-Scripting-Alternatives 1. Introduction Read more…
BASH SCRIPTS HAS the inherit property of script languages of being readable by the users. Sometimes it is desireable to at least attempt to hide the inner details of a script. There are a few possibilities to do at least a bit of scrambling of the contents of a script Read more…
INTERRUPTIONS AT WORK is a frequent occurrence but generally its not a big problem. This time however the unavoidable loss of focus on what you was doing before, gave an unpleasant surprise. I was adding some new functionality and had just written the following: switch (state) { case Step3: configuration.length Read more…
WORDPRESS 2.7 UPGRADE from WordPress 2.2.2 done with no problems. I was somewhat worried that my old theme would break on the upgrade, but It appears to be working. Well, I got at little issue with the Wp-Syntax plugin. I upgraded the plugin and now my GeShi style overrides do Read more…
CONVERTING NUMBERS TO strings or the opposite of converting strings to numbers, is an operation that is far from as trivial as one would expect from such an obvious task – at least when it comes to C++ programming using standard libraries. The converting can be performed by the iostringstream Read more…
I HAVE BEEN reading up on Python programming lately (more on that in a later post). I’ve now been introduced to anonymous functions. In Python, anonymous functions are available using the lambda keyword. Anonymous functions are great, but I think the Lua syntax for anonymous functions is superior to the Read more…
GUI PROGRAMMING IS not something I’ve done in quite a while. At work I do embedded programming and that’s mainly also what I’ve been doing for my own personal projects. Except for some small utility applications I really haven’t done large GUI projects since MFC 6.0 was cool (if such Read more…