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Category Archives: Software Development
Perl Signal Handling
Signal handling in Perl is one of the latest in many things I have had to learn recently. When I started looking for information on this, I of course began by googling for it first, and then resorting the Other … Continue reading
Article of the Day: By The Grace of Perl
A friend of mine just posted a couple of great blog articles about the things he has learned, and the things he loves, about the perl scripting language: By The Grace Of Perl …First, the map function is the best … Continue reading
The new KDE Logo?
I know that David Vignoni just posted this to get input from people, however I really do hope it makes the cut. How beautiful can you get? Klick to see the Icon Godfather goodness…
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Filename Regex
Many time I’ve found myself needing to perform some form of handling / manipulation of filenames and paths in my perls scripts. So I’ve tweaked a regex I found to one that adds an escape ( ‘\’ ) before each … Continue reading
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Round a Float to # of Significant Digits Following The Decimal Point
Unfortunately, this next couple of weeks I get to do some development in C, and have ran into the always lovely issue of rounding a floating point number within a given # of significant digits. First, the need to do … Continue reading
Unexpected Library Behavior: Part 1 – QCheckBox setCurrentText(QString&)
Anyone using the Qt 3.x libraries have probably run into the occasional oddity, however what I’ve discovered is a little too odd to not mention. When dealing with combo boxes, you generally find helper functions that provide accessors / modifiers … Continue reading
Link Happy
I have come across a great community website for people who work with Qt or KDE based applications, called Code Skipper, thanks to an article about it on OSNews.com. I recommend everyone who has an interest to take a look, … Continue reading
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April PPLUG Meeting Presentation
Unfortunately if you were interested in seeing the PPLUG presentation for this month, it has already come and gone… BUT, as always I posted the presentation slides from my discussion about PHP: PPLUG April 11th, 2005 : PHP – Expressions … Continue reading
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New Project: Tin (Things I Want)
Yesterday I officially started development on a new project I’m calling “Tin”. It’s simply an idea that I’ve had for a while of a Apache+PHP+Mysql based wishlist system. The reason for this is simply that the available php wishlists are … Continue reading
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Link Happy – Ascii Tables
I found this to be a really nice site to reference if you need a quick look at the ascii table: Ascii Table – ASCII character codes and html, octal, hex and decimal charts: Then again, there’s always good old … Continue reading