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One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

Been busy with the play and work. We switched to a 4 day, 9 hour work week. So that leaves me with about 2 hours each day for non-theater, non-work related stuff. Not counting the day off, I guess. Anyway, check this out. I have been tasked with writing a SQL Server database module for [...]

This is a sort of code analysis and something I discovered with :include usage in Rails. (This is in rails 1.1.6, so YMMV. I believe the latest Rails opts to use inner SELECTs rather than JOIN statements. Also, this is kind of long.)

So, this pleases me enough to post it. dynamic buffer insertion with PHP Needed to quickly add a notice to every page on a client’s site where there was a single include, but not single-included layout pages (teachers, *sigh*). I’ve never messed with output buffer stuff before, so this was just sort of surprising to [...]

Thought this was a little silly, but it generated a lot of discussion about precedence, short-circuiting of conditionals, and the value of syntactic sugar. http://pastie.caboo.se/146194

While trying to figure out how to remove formatting from ‘wp_list_cats’ in Word Press, I discovered this awesome bit. Click the thumbnail for the full glory of the code. You will notice that in my screenshot, the final function call to ‘list_cats’ at the end is truncated. This is because there are eighteen parameters. Again [...]

Finally got around to learning how to define keyboard shortucts in vim. It’s easy! map <desiredkey> <targetaction> So, for example, I split windows vertically and want to navigate via ctrl+pagedown or pageup. Here’s what I did (include < and > when defining) map <c-pageup> <c-w>h map <c-pagedown> <c-w>l Found via a vim wiki search [ad#Google [...]