Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Fight for the community you want

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Someone took offence at a puerile and sexist presentation given at what is supposed to be a technical event in the Rails community. Good on...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Monitoring a linux process as it reads files

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I am processing 20 thousand files with some proprietary software and needed to monitor how far it got in reading the files. In my own Python...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Bimap. Bi-directional mapping/dictionary for Python?

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I had a chance encounter with the boost C++ library documentation and came across a description of their href="http://cablemodem.fiber...
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Friday, April 10, 2009

Knapsack solution by OO Calc

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I had previously solved the href="http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Knapsack_Problem" target="_blank">knapsack proble...
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Memoization and stack use.

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I was caught out today when investigating how to apply memoization to allow computation of larger values of a recursive function. Mutual Rec...
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Thursday, April 02, 2009

(Ab)use of Pythons in-built data structures

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I like to use Pythons in-built data structures quit a lot, and tend to force myself to ask whether I  should create my own classes, which al...
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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Huffman Encoding in Python

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Huffman encoding came up on Rosetta Code . Huffman encoding is a way to assign binary codes to symbols that reduces the overall number o...
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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Batch Process Runner in bash shell - Forgotten Enhancements

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A comment on an href="http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/2007/12/batch-process-runner-in-bash-shell.html">earlier post caused me t...
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