Monthly Archives: March 2012

More life saving RegEx

I have a lot of trouble with switching between the various computers I end up using… http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Change_end-of-line_format_for_dos-mac-unix

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What’s wrong with using the Apache license?

In theory really nothing. And from a just about any perspective it’s completely respectable choice that I wish I could use more often when publishing software. In practice though I find it difficult to use. Why? Because 9 times out … Continue reading

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Free Computer Science “Books”

I just found this page: http://freecomputerbooks.com/ There is a lot of really neat stuff on there. On the downside it’s hard to navigate, some of it really out of date, some of the links are dead, and some of it … Continue reading

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WordPress.com Source code Highlighting

I just found this out, and i’m sure a lot of people probably already knew this, but as always, I’m late the game. Anyway, WordPress.com has built in support for source code highlighting. I’ve already updated several of my posts … Continue reading

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VBA Functions that return a value

It took a while to figure this out today. It’s not obvious like with Java or C. Let’s say you have a string, and you have to modify it in similar ways at different points in the code, so instead … Continue reading

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Small bodies

The two coolest small-bodies in the universe: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?ID=a0300909 http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?ID=a0294727 Props to Rob Pike on Google+

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Linux Kernel Coding Style and Patch Submission Guide

I’m sure for 99% of the open source coders out there this either old hat or you don’t care. For me it’s something nice to reference back to later. And if you’ve never seen it before its excellent reading material. … Continue reading

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Best Paper Awards (Computer Science)

If you’re really geeky, and most of you probably aren’t, here’s a very interesting webpage full of very interesting things. http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html

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