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24 Dec 2010 »
tornado: presenting a new paradigm for IOStream read callbacks
Recently I tried my hand at handling chunked encoding, as a prelude to implementing chunked handling for smart http git servers (AFAIK, grack, which looks pretty neat, can't do it) - receiving chunked requests on the server, that is, not sending out chunked responses, examples for which are abundant.
After ...
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24 Dec 2010 »
hg-git/dulwich on Windows
For the past few days, I've been working on setting them up on Windows for hg-to-git mirroring/converting. The last time I tried this was a couple of months ago; back then, I couldn't get it to work, so I had to do the mirroring on a Linux ...
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18 Nov 2010 »
custom 'casper' directory location for BackTrack
This turned out to be more complicated than I thought.
At first, I thought that it's just a matter of changing the
bootparameter - both the lowercase and uppercase ones (I didn't know which was right); after all, they contain the word "casper"./boot/vmlinuz BOOT=/path/to ... -
17 Nov 2010 »
JSRs for Java SE7
JSRs for Java SE7 are out. In terms of language-level changes, I found JSR 334 particularly interesting; proposed changes include:
- strings in switch/case
- multi-catch statements
Makes you wonder why Java didn't have them earlier on. But the most exciting proposal would be JSR 335:
JSR 335: Lambda Expressions ...
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10 Nov 2010 »
post previews no longer show discus block
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09 Nov 2010 »
moving from cygwin to msysgit
I've been building git from source for some time now - but recently, I decided to get msysgit running. Nowadays, I've been working on my laptop, and cygwin-git is sloooow on it -
rebase --interactiveaside, there is a noticeable lag even for tasks likeaddandcommit.First up ...
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06 Oct 2010 »
scripting fun
I needed to get a list of time slots of one hour each, from 900h to 1700h, for two days, 11th and 12th October. Unfortunately, Google Docs' spreadsheet wasn't clever enough to guess the pattern for Auto Fill to work.
Python came to mind:
>>> for day in (11,12 ...
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02 Oct 2010 »
the best Beethoven's piano sonatas you've never heard of - Éric Heidsieck
Just one track was indicative enough of the freshness of interpretation contained therein.
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19 Sep 2010 »
Chungking Express
One of the most memorable films I've watched. I had no idea the female lead in the second part was Faye Wong, until someone else told me. What a zany performance!
According to the various critical reviews, if this film is approached from a plot/story perspective, then it ...
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05 Sep 2010 »
nuschedule, now with minified js!
I've been itching to hack for the past few weeks, so this weekend I decided to scratch it.
First up - minifying the source, in an automated manner.
I knew jQuery was doing this with the Google Closure compiler, so I had a look at their Makefile. I also decided ...
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