As many will do and I did last year , I looked through my notes, projects , tweets , blog entries and personal wiki to assemble the highli...

/* ---[ pushd and dirs ]--- */ I have long been a command line person. I hate having to use the mouse. One thing that is a little cumber...

In part 1 of this blog entry I covered two relatively efficient implementations of an algorithm to keep the top N entries in a stream of po...

I was finishing up my work for the day and decided to check Hacker News . High on the list that day was Programming Praxis , which I'd...

Recently I was working on a simple Clojure program where I need to read input from STDIN. I hadn't actually done this before, so I searc...

/* ---[ Wireshark on Linux ]--- */ When you install the wireshark APT package on an Ubuntu system (in my case Xubuntu 11.10) and start ...

I ran across some beautiful code today. I have the book Beautiful Code , though I've only read the chapter by Douglas Crockford on wr...