I decided recently that it was time to add to my knowledge of sorting algorithms. I didn't just want to read some quick descriptions on names of algorithms but to actually prod my knowledge-muscle with some stuff. So, I started out on Wikipedia, reading the article on sorting algorithms ...
read moreWhat lobbying gets you ...
If businesses insist on lobbying, the logical conclusion is to exclude businesses completely from any political decision-making, in any form.
If we accept lobbying, the results will be citizens getting screwed over, again and again.
A quote from the paper:
While there is a correlation between openness and interoperability, it ...
read morePHP switch script
As promised in PHP 5.2.x and 5.3.x side by sidehere's a script that switches not just the php module for Apache but also the command line version
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PHP 5.2.x and 5.3.x side by side
A while ago I ripped out my PHP 5.2 installation (nicely handled by apt-get) in favour of manually installing 5.3 so I could play around. Yesterday I then installed Ubuntu 9.10 (info and download at ubuntu.com) and after quite a lot of installing I suddenly found ...
read moreComparing CMS/blog systems, part 1: blog installation
In order to get to know more about the various open source CMS and blog systems out there, I've decided to fill up some hard disk space by installing a bunch of them and comparing them as I go along. I'll be detailing all my progress here with ...
read moreThe good and the bad
Random stuff always seems to happen in a non-random fashion. When you're hanging low, for instance, more bad things seem to happen to you. I suppose that's partly the case with me, currently: I'm currently out of a job so money is an issue (not currently that ...
read moreInfosys activity
Lately I've been working a lot on the Infosys code, so I figured I'd post some updates I've done here.
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Refactored core code:
- Turned singletons into normal classes, using static variables for shared data if needed
- Introduced exceptions instead of bool return values in many places
- Changed ...
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Beginning actionscript
Set off by a job interview I got, I've started learning actionscript. It's not something I've dealt with before apart from decompiling flash scripts to debug them. There's been some obstacles before I could really dig into it - the first being getting an actionscript compiler installed ...
read moreRanting about PHP
Came across this blog post on PHP today. Seems to me the author needs a fair amount of sleep and then a cop of coffee or two ...
First,
... it all started with me trying to be clever with array_map and array_filter.
Being clever is not a good thing. In my ...
read moreRefactoring Infosys