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Trying Pylons
So, I was looking into trying some of the Python web frameworks this past weekend. I originally started to look into Django and TurboGears, but after seeing nxsy’s comparison, I decided to try Pylons....
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Chromium Tricks for the Lazy Programmer
One of the cool time-saving features in Chromium (better known as Google Chrome) is the custom search engines. It’s not a new concept. Mozilla Firefox has similar capabilities, but it feels like a...
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Installing clbuild
After frustration with using an older version of sbcl and using asdf-install, I decided to try clbuild. clbuild is a shell script that allows me to keep my lisp environment updated. It is a little...
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Lexical Illusion
Occasionally, I have an issue where my grammar is bad. I can’t count how many times this problem when I comment my code. I always thought it was a cut and paste issue or a typo, but how come I could...
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Epic Design Fail
Apple tries very hard to do unique designs, but I think my iPod Shuffle 3rd Generation has a serious flaw. It has no control buttons on the unit itself. The controls are embedded inline with the...
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String Similarity Library
Today, I submitted a new open source project onto Google Code. It is a Java port of a string similarity library that I wrote years ago. The API is a service that calculates a distance or similarity...
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libgmp.so missing in Ubuntu 10.04?
When programming Haskell, I usually hack in a GHCi interactive session. So I was surprise when I tried to make a test executable the other day: ralph@vegeta:~/src/haskell$ ghc --make Hello [1 of 1]...
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MySQL Query Browser in Ubuntu 12.04
I going to outright say it: MySQL Workbench completely sucks. It is a convoluted, complicated, steaming pile of bloated nonsense. It is hard to perform a simple query. Worse, the damn thing keeps...
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Bash: Detecting if Script is Sourced
Here is a quick way of detecting if your script is being source as part of a larger script or being executed directly: #!/bin/sh [ "$0" = "$(basename $SHELL)" ] && echo "Script is sourced" And...
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Amazon needs smarter warnings
I had pre-ordered Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 from Amazon a few months ago. Today, I get an email stating that my credit card that I used to place the order would be expired at the time that the order...
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