I was just cruising Hacker News and saw a post pointing to a book on text algorithms. I took a quick scan through it and it looks like a good read, has plenty of algorithms for text processing, their applications and proofs for certain algorithms. So check it out Text Algorithms[PDF] .
So I guess I am daring, but not many software developers/programmers would publicly disparage their code like I am about to do. I was looking at some code I wrote about 3.5 years ago when I was first learning python during a summer job in the computer science department at my University and this is [...]
Recently, I have been working on some of the code for MUN’s LabNET, which has a pretty large database component. I figured that along with this work, I would whip up a friendly little tutorial which allows developers to get started using MySQL in conjunction with Python.
First off, I will make the assumption that you [...]
On hacker news for the last couple of days an essay by Paul Graham has been on the front page, its called Makers Schedule, Managers Schedule.
Paul put into words something I have known for a long time, generally software developers(I use myself and people I know as examples) when interrupted tend to take longer [...]
In my last post I mentioned I am working on a code snippet repository for storing and sharing code snippets. In the comments Jason Gedge(a very smart man I might add) mentioned that I should probably store code snippets as XML and then use XSL/XSLT to do the markup for the syntax highlighting. This is [...]
Well I actually won’t give you code snippets, but I will give you the ability to store and organize them.
Storing code snippets is not the worlds greatest unconquered problem or anything like that, however that being said I have tried much of the software out there for storing code snippets and I still feel like [...]
One thing I have come to discover is that lately I have a lot of opportunities to do many projects, but I have so little extra time. This is kind of odd to me because time was something I thought I would have in abundance now that I am finished school, this is of the [...]
I just saw this site with Internet Explorer for the first time, it actually looks terrible. I am definitely going to have to rethink the theme, expect some changes to come soon.
I have been trying out Django a little bit the last few days and I am loving it. I will attribute that in no small part to my love of python, however, getting a test project going with Django was a breeze, using the Models to set up the database and its relations was easy [...]
So I have really been pushing to get some posts going here, but it seems like every time I have the opportunity to get something going something else comes up. I have 2 posts now in the pipe, just need to be edited and then they are good to go. That being said, I messed [...]