I use nano all the time because it's the first UNIX editor I've ever used thanks to the Gentoo documentation (long, separate story). Therefore, when I write code I like to have some syntax highlighting, but nano's syntax highlighting is pretty whack since it's all just regex's and nobody likes …continue
Today I want to talk about another idea I had regarding increasing both browser and server efficiency regarding javascript libraries.
There are a few major players in this realm including jQuery, mootools, prototype, and a few others. These libraries spend a considerable amount of processing time just checking the browser …continue
(x*y)%10=x%10 if (x%10)%2=0 and (y%10)=6
In words: numbers multiplied by other numbers starting with 6 have the same least-significant digit as before they were multiplied, but only if that digit is a multiple of 2. This is probably due to some …continue
I spent the past half-hour trying to debug a problem that turned out to be from debugging, profiling to be exact. If you're doing a quick google for profiling with django-debug-toolbar, you may be tempted to use adurdin's Profiling Panel. I'm writing this to tell you to WATCH OUT!!
Now …continue
Recently I've been working a little on my plugin for Pidgin (Google Talk Invisible) but my Windows computer has been formatted since I last worked on it so I no longer had my Windows compiling environment. So I spent some time and created two working environments (one for libpurple 2 …continue
So I'm tired of these lyrics websites having such bad lyrics for good artists. Every once in a while I'll try to post some real lyrics for songs that I listen to with inadequate lyrics elsewhere. Here's my latest in the series:
Ah,
The name of this song is Uncle …continue
There is no code to go along with this post because I haven't had the time or use-case to develop it yet, but it was an idea spawned from the ORM of Django and some maintenance I was doing in a PHP project.
Basically, Django's built-in ORM is awesome, but …continue
Putty update to 0.61 which includes JumpLists builtin, so this will no longer be maintained. I encourage you to use the official client when possible.
Recently I had the good fortune to upgrade my hard drive to 120GB and felt that while I'm reinstalling my OS anyway, I should …continue
As a college student who eats out frequently (my cooking skills aren't good enough for crunch time eating) and who is always up late, I'm always wondering what restaurants are still open in the area. In order to reduce crime, the City of Berkeley decided to make business close for …continue
Recently I've been working for a website that has a lot of scanned PDFs. They need to make sure that they don't have the same problem as the redacted PDFs of the FBI/CIA. You know, where you could copy-paste the words out from behind black boxes?
Yeah, we had …continue