August 14, 2010

What I learned from Algorithms

Have you ever wondered how exactly a text editor performs searches for those words or phrases you type into the "Find" dialog box? Neither did I... More
August 6, 2010

No code without documentation

Your project can be the best on the face of the Earth, but without good documentation, the best code means nothing. Harsh words? Yes. Justified? Absolutely. More
July 28, 2010

Find that library

Heads up: if you’re maintaining a Gentoo system, and you emerge -u world, and it upgrades libpng, and then everything starts breaking because it can’t find a static library file, relax. There’s a script to fix it. Run:

/usr/sbin/libpng-1.4.x-update.sh

And everything will be well again. (Note that lafilefixer does you no good in this situation.)