Archives for 2008

2008.12.26: Book review: "The Third Chimpanzee" by Jared Diamond
2008.12.26: Solution to the RC circuit puzzle
2008.12.22: An RC circuit puzzle
2008.12.20: Writing a game in Python with Pygame. Part II
2008.12.19: Book review: "Border Crosser" by Avner Shur
2008.12.13: Writing a game in Python with Pygame. Part I
2008.12.13: lets let's its it's
2008.12.09: Bug in Python's difflib module ?
2008.12.09: Book review: "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
2008.12.06: Book review: "Beginning game development with Python and Pygame" by Will McGugan
2008.12.04: The economic crash and free markets
2008.12.02: Posting mathematical formulae in a Wordpress blog
2008.12.02: Book review: "Philosophy: Who Needs It" by Ayn Rand
2008.11.28: A Python replacement for PHP software ?
2008.11.28: Book review: "Jewish children" by Sholem Aleichem
2008.11.25: Book review: "A voyage long and strange" by Tony Horwitz
2008.11.22: JSON is YAML, but YAML is not JSON
2008.11.15: pycparser v1.0 is out!
2008.11.14: Book review: "A Certain Ambiguity: A mathematical novel" by G. Suri and H. Bal
2008.11.14: Spam madness
2008.11.13: Book review: "American Prometheus - The triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" by K. Bird and M. Sherwin
2008.11.10: Book review: "The State of the Jews" by Theodor Herzl
2008.11.07: Book review: "The Wisdom of Shepherds" by Rhett Ellis
2008.10.28: Book review: "Discourse on the Method..." by René Descartes
2008.10.23: Deploying TurboGears applications on shared hosting (Bluehost)
2008.10.20: Installing Python 2.5 on Bluehost
2008.10.18: Implementing cdecl with pycparser
2008.10.17: memmgr - a fixed-pool memory allocator
2008.10.14: Book review: "The extended phenotype" by Richard Dawkins
2008.10.14: Database n00b
2008.10.14: Parsing C: more on #line directives
2008.10.11: Should I learn Javascript ?
2008.10.10: Writing tests first
2008.10.10: On parsing the C standard library headers
2008.10.09: Packaging DLLs with executables made by py2exe
2008.10.08: Book review: "Clear and present danger" by Tom Clancy
2008.10.03: Upgrading Wordpress
2008.09.26: Recursive descent, LL and predictive parsers
2008.09.20: Book review: "The odd brain" by Stephen Juan
2008.09.17: Book review: "Perfume" by Patrick Süskind
2008.09.15: stackoverflow.com - what the online programming community needs ?
2008.09.13: Google search rank
2008.09.12: Book review: "Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley
2008.09.10: Sending mail from Python with SMTP
2008.09.10: Book review: "The adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain
2008.09.06: Local execution of Python CGI scripts
2008.08.31: ctypes - calling C/C++ code from Python
2008.08.29: Space-efficient list rotation
2008.08.28: A useful Excel VBA macro
2008.08.24: reStructuredText for blog post formatting
2008.08.23: Initializing an array in constant time
2008.08.21: Robust exception handling
2008.08.15: Intersection of 1D segments
2008.08.14: Book review: "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin
2008.08.13: Book review: "After Tamerlane" by John Darwin
2008.08.05: Book review: "Rocket Boys" by Homer Hickam
2008.08.02: rant about mailing lists
2008.08.01: matplotlib with wxPython GUIs
2008.07.26: matplotlib - plotting with Python
2008.07.23: A failed attempt to Ghost my new computer
2008.07.22: New computer & Windows XP woes
2008.07.18: Reading C type declarations
2008.07.15: CPR to my computer, again
2008.07.13: Book review: "Naked economics" by Charles Wheelan
2008.07.11: ASTs for analyzing C
2008.07.05: Book review: "Genetics for dummies" by Tara Rodden Robinson
2008.07.03: libcollect - collecting Python distributions
2008.06.28: Compiling Python extensions with distutils and MinGW
2008.06.27: Creating Python extension modules in C
2008.06.25: Book review: "Mitla Pass" by Leon Uris
2008.06.23: Book review: "The conquest of the Incas" by John Hemming
2008.06.20: Productivity insights from "Getting things done"
2008.06.12: Book review: "After the quake" by Haruki Murakami
2008.06.09: Book review: "Cien años de soledad" by Gabriel García Márquez
2008.06.06: Python impressions
2008.06.06: Signed copy of SICP
2008.06.05: Book review: "The feast of the goat" by Mario Vargas Llosa
2008.05.31: Nostalgia: my first programs
2008.05.31: A Tetris clone in Python / wxPython
2008.05.28: Book review: "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
2008.05.27: EEE tweaking - increasing usable disk space
2008.05.23: Book review: "The soul of a new machine" by Tracy Kidder
2008.05.20: Book review: "Cannery row" by John Steinbeck
2008.05.17: testing WP-Syntax
2008.05.16: Book review: "My Michael" by Amos Oz
2008.05.14: Python
2008.05.13: Book review: "The Last Templar" by Raymond Khoury
2008.04.18: SICP - conclusion
2008.04.18: SICP section 5.5
2008.04.09: Book review: "Alexander the great" by Peter Abbott
2008.04.04: SICP section 5.4
2008.04.03: Book review: "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
2008.03.25: Book review: "Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2008.03.14: Search keywords in FireFox
2008.03.08: Some insights on Linux on the EEE
2008.03.07: SICP section 5.3
2008.03.07: Book review: "Uncle Tom's cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
2008.03.04: Book review: "The volunteer" by Michael Ross
2008.03.04: Initial impressions of the EEE
2008.02.29: The EEE has arrived !
2008.02.24: Book review: "The origin of species" by Charles Darwin
2008.02.23: SICP section 5.2
2008.02.22: SICP section 5.1
2008.02.15: Book review: "A thousand splendid suns" by Khaled Hosseini
2008.02.12: Asus EEE ordered
2008.02.12: Book review: "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
2008.02.09: SICP sections 4.4.2 - 4.4.4
2008.02.08: SICP section 4.4.1
2008.02.07: SICP section 4.4
2008.02.01: A subjective comparison between Perl and Ruby
2008.01.26: Book review: "Everything is illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer
2008.01.24: Book review: "A short history of the United States" by Edward Channing
2008.01.20: Book review: "War and peace" by Leo Tolstoy
2008.01.17: Pythagorean - the theorem with most proofs ?
2008.01.11: SICP section 4.3.3
2008.01.08: Book review: "Wisdom of the pretzel" by Ilan Heitner
2008.01.05: SICP section 4.3.2