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Some bash goodness

Here’s some bash goodness (well, not really) to make ‘less’ a little bit more useful.
 
less() {
       local -a args
 
       for arg
       do
               case “$arg” in
               *:[[:digit:]]* )
          [...]

Why not 2 stacks?

I was googling around the other day for compiler wisdom when I stumbled on a computer security “research” paper. Some one or ones were postulating some theoretical result about vulnerability to buffer overflow attacks in blah, blah, blah special case. I didn’t read it, because that’s not what I was after.
But it made me think: [...]

Things left unsaid…

In my copious spare time I’m working on a programming language called “Close.” It’s a C-like systems programming language targeted at the Parrot VM.
Now, I’m not a compiler guy. But I don’t have to be. Because Parrot comes with the Parrot Compiler Toolkit (PCT), a set of code that can render an Abstract Syntax Tree [...]

Three

As you can probably tell, my three LCD monitors are all present and accounted for. And yeah, before you ask, it ROCKS!
One very interesting “problem” is that none of the monitors I received shipped with a DVI cable. I have no idea why that is — all of the smaller LCD monitors I saw last [...]

Getting L A R G E R

I just spent a bunch of time out west (which, since I live on the east coast, isn’t saying much) working with a client trying to do agile development. I have a kind of gentlemen’s agreement with the client that I won’t write anything that makes them look too bad. Presumably, they’ll be kind enough [...]

Delays

Brad Appleton, is a smart guy, published author, and all around good egg. He’s been posting quite a bit in the last few months while I’ve been procrastinating converting Longacre-inc to use WordPress so that I could respond to his posts in a persistent, expository fashion. (Important considering some of Blogspot’s policies on comments.)
Well, it [...]

Doing better

Longacre has a blog!
Doing better, obviously named for the Longacre motto, is about Software CM. It will cover the tools, the practice, and the industry itself.