Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
I found a cool schema that I hadn't seen before on reddit today: the linux distro timeline.
We notice three main roots Debian the community distro, Slackware the one man distro and Red Hat the company developed distro. I guess everyone know them, nothing to see move along.
What's interesting ? The ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Just one of the problems that I finished solving a few hours ago for google code jam. It's the first time I tried a programming competition, and it's a pretty interesting one. Problems are hard but solvable and you always get a few sample inputs and outputs, which is really ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Futurama: the beast with a billion backs is out in DVD in the US and Canada and illegally on the internet for others, may it lead to the end of civilisation. This is a must watch. Futurama is as witty and fun as ever. You will have the honor to ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
A few days ago I developed a plugin for gedit that provides smart indentation for python code.
The code is indented when the previous line ends with ':' and un-indented if the previous line starts with 'return', 'pass', 'continue' or 'break'. This plugin will use your tab configuration for indentation. To ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
You have a brand new wordpress blog. How fast is it ? It's supposed to be fast, isn't it ? Lighttpd is dead fast, php is fast, mysql is fast.
So let's try it with ApacheBench:
ab -n 1000 http://libreamoi.com/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Well this is not so useful now that ipdb exists. Still ipdb sometimes fights with ipython, the ? of ipython doesn't work, so it might still be useful from time to time.
For those that are used to ipython the python debugger is often frustrating by its limitations: no completion, no ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
My blog is finally up ! But it's a wordpress blog, not one that I made myself in python. Wordpress is great as a tool. Simple enough, functional enough, I wish it was written in python for me to extend. Anyway, let's forget python for a second and go into ...
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