391
Full-Text Search in Django with PostgreSQL
Article based on my talk about Full-text search in Django with PostgreSQL.
392
JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp
There have been a few efforts at writing an Emacs JIT — the original one , Burton Samograd’s , and also Nick LLoyd’s . So, what else to do except write my own?
393
Tools for Exploring .NET Internals
Whether you want to look at what your code is doing ‘under-the-hood’ or you’re trying to see what the ‘internals’ of the CLR look like, there is a whole range of tools that can help you out.
394
395
Seemingly Impossible Swift Programs
We will construct Swift programs that should be impossible to implement, yet somehow are not!
396
Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20
The C++ Standard moves at a fast pace. Probably, not all developers caught up with C++11/14 yet and recently we got C++17. Now it’ time to prepare C++20! A few weeks ago The C++ Committee had an official ISO meeting in Jacksonville, FL (12-17 March 2018) where they worked hard on the new specification.
397
398
Writing space invaders with Go
The earliest memory I had of arcade video games was watching my older brother and cousins going at the video game machines at Genting Highlands. While our parents were at the other types of games Genting Highlands was more popularly known for, we were generally let loose to play arcade games to our hearts' content…
399
Making Windows Slower Part 2: Process Creation
Windows has long had a reputation for slow file operations and slow process creation. Have you ever wanted to make these operations even slower? This weeks’ blog post covers a technique you can use…
400
Interactive GPU Programming, Part 1: Hello CUDA
Today, fast number crunching means parallel programs that run on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). Thanks to the recent highly publicized deep learning and ...
401
Dark side of ergonomics in Rust
The dark side of ergonomics
402
How to write X in both Python 3 and JavaScript
Python and JavaScript are two of the most popular programming languages . If you're a Python programmer learning JavaScript, or a JavaScript programmer learning Python, this handy cheat sheet might help you.
403
404
Towards λ-calculus
lambdaway is built on a wiki engine, lambdatank, and a small Lisp dialect, lambdatalk.
405
The secret life of NaN
The floating point standard defines a special value called Not-a-Number (NaN) which is used to represent, well, values that aren’t numbers. Double precision ...
406
Is sorted using SIMD instructions
Recently, I came across a function that checks whether an array is sorted, i.e. if there is no element which would be greater than its successor. Below is a sample implementation:
407
408
Parallel tasks in Python: concurrent.futures
concurrent.futures is well suited to Embarrassingly Parallel tasks. You could write concurrent code with a simple for loop.
409
Algorithms tutorial series for beginners
As a developer, you have the power to change the world! You can write programs that enable new technologies. For instance, develop software to find an earlier diagnosis of diseases. But that’s not the only way. You might do it indirectly by creating projects that make people more productive and help them free up time…
410
From macOS to Windows and WSL
Writings about computing, agents, and the Internet.
411
412
Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review (2010)
Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work requires code review on most of our code, and as we bring on an army of interns for the summer, I've been responsible for reviewing lots of code. Additionally, about five months ago BarnOwl, the console-based IM client I…
413
Clojure is cool
I had heard of it years ago, but never really gave it a lot of thought (or time) to it, despite being a huge fan of Common Lisp and a bit of a language polyglot. I think part of my initial reluctance may have been 'java' - as I would typically associate just the negatives to it (cumbersome language syntax, slow start…
414
A History of .NET Runtimes
Recently I was fortunate enough to chat with Chris Bacon who wrote DotNetAnywhere (an alternative .NET Runtime) and I quipped with him:
415
Frequent versus infrequent developers, in languages and so on
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
416
Three kinds of memory leaks
So, you’ve got a program that’s using more and more over time as it runs. Probably you can immediately identify this as a likely symptom of a memory leak. But when we say “memory leak”, what do we actually mean? In my experience, apparent memory leaks divide into three broad categories, each with somewhat different…
417
418
Java is still available at zero-cost
The Java ecosystem has always been built on a high quality $free (zero-cost) JDK available from Oracle, and previously Sun. This is as true...
419
Algebras we love
If you work with anything that can be modeled mathematically, you most likely know that many things you work on can be expressed with algebras. However, if you are not a graduate of a computer science course or similar you might not know how ubiquitous they are and how often you rely on some of them. (And I don’t mean…
420
Why I Moved Back from Gradle to Maven
My experiences with Gradle and why I finally moved back to Maven