Archive for October, 2006

One Nation

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Bernie Miklasz in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Cardinals fans live everywhere, existing as one extended family, and they became one nation under a groove again on Friday night, when the power of this Red October pulled their heartbeats together in an electric moment. At 10:22 on the evening of Oct. 27, ...

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Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Debugging make Make utilities such as GNU make, System V make, and Berkeley make, are fundamental tools for streamlining the application build process, but each one is just a little different from the others. Learn the structure of the makefile and how to avoid common m (tags: linux howto make) How to steal ...

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Monday, October 23rd, 2006

UNIX tips: Become a better blogger with UNIX UNIX® and weblogs, or blogs, have a lot in common. Besides being the native environment of most Web servers and the preferred environment for many Web developers, UNIX can be an ideal environment to blog with because of its Web and text-processing power. (tags: ...

Stats so pure …

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

It's hard to imagine how you could be a code hacker and not be a baseball fan. The elegance of the statistical database of baseball sometimes just takes my breath away. This, for example, from last night's Mets Cardinals game, courtesy of the Elias Sports Bureau. In the game, left-handed ...

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Friday, October 13th, 2006

Merrion Computing Ltd - Seven Secrets of Successful Programmers It is one of the most pervasive misunderstandings in computing that the source code is for the computer's consumption. Computers work with low-level binary code, a series of impenetrable 1's and 0's or hexadecimal numbers, not the structured high level la (tags: development ...

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Thursday, October 12th, 2006

How to Post to Two Separate Del.icio.us Accounts Easily If you maintain two separate del.icio.us accounts (one personal account and one for a business or web site), you know how difficult del.icio.us can be to use if you are having to switch usernames all of the time. Essentially, everytime you want ...