the brown-dragon blog

2010-03

• [2010-03-09] The Perils of BitFields (C/C++,Tech) Yesterday, our team ran smack into the perils of using [href htt...
• [2010-03-02] First Rewrite! (Tech,Scheme-Lisp) [image rewrite-1/rewrite-1.png Yay!] ^^^Yay!^^^ After a year of ...

2009-12

• [2009-12-03] Minimum in a Lazy Functional Language (LtU,Tech) In a functional language [href http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quic...

2009-10

• [2009-10-01] Run! EMACS Run! (1TrueEd,Utils,C/C++,Tech) Old [href http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EmacsAsOperatingSystem jokes as...

2009-09

• [2009-09-22] C++ != ++C (C/C++,LtU,Tech) *C++* is NOT *C*.

2009-08

• [2009-08-21] grepmail.sh (Tech,Utils) Having [href muttrc.htm moved to Mutt], I needed a good way to s...
• [2009-08-21] Duff's Device (LtU,Fun,Tech,C/C++) I find it sad that many programmers today, even those that use C...
• [2009-08-18] Converting Outlook PST to MBOX (Utils,Tech) I've been using Microsoft Outlook to manage my email for a long ...
• [2009-08-12] Prime (Ir)Regular Expressions (Fun,1TrueEd,Tech) Many of us use [href http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expres...
• [2009-08-12] Downloading Cygwin (Utils,Tech) [href http://www.cygwin.com/ Cywin] (on WinXP) is wonderful - it...

2009-06

• [2009-06-30] ab (part deux): Catching up to Apache! (C/C++,Utils,Tech) In [href ab.htm my last post] I discussed the Apache Benchmarkin...
• [2009-06-30] ab: Benchmarking HTTP Servers (Utils,Tech) I was discussing an embedded HTTP server I've written with a fri...

2009-05

• [2009-05-13] Using rand (); (Tech,C/C++) The %%%%rand ()%%%% function generates a pseudo-random number in...
• [2009-05-08] A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (LtU,Fun,Tech) This is mostly for the PLT fans out there - I found it absolutel...

2009-04

• [2009-04-30] Calling Conventions in Windows (x86) (Tech,C/C++) When debugging with WinDbg you may notice that all functions are...
• [2009-04-29] Multithreading with ... Cats?! (Tech,C/C++) I found a fun introduction to multi-threading from __Orion Grana...
• [2009-04-29] Editing Binary Files (Tech,1TrueEd) Programmers love their editors. Considering we spend most of our...
• [2009-04-29] Disabling instructions while debugging using WinDbg (Tech,C/C++) A quick way of disabling instructions you don't want to execute ...

2009-01

• [2009-01-27] Fast Java Exceptions (Tech,Java) Java Exceptions are notoriously slow. Heck - _everything_ in Jav...
• [2009-01-15] Freedom from free()! (Tech,C/C++) One of the pain-points in C is manual memory management. Using C...
• [2009-01-13] RSS' got style! (Tech,Utils) RSS and IE6. A match made in hell!
• [2009-01-06] Pass Me The Array (Tech,C/C++) Have you ever wondered how to pass an array as a return value in...

2008-12

• [2008-12-29] Importing SVN to GIT (Tech,Scheme-Lisp,SCM) I've been trying out [href http://git.or.cz/ Git] to see if I sh...
• [2008-12-26] array[0] or array[1]? (The Definitive Answer at last!) (LtU,Tech,My-Views,Java,C/C++) Beginner programmers tend to get confused over the convention th...
• [2008-12-24] Embedding files in C Libraries (Tech,C/C++) Recently I needed to access a text file containing a database sc...
• [2008-12-21] An Elegant (and utterly amazing) solution to Einstein's Problem (LtU,Fun,Tech,Scheme-Lisp) A colleague of mine sent me this puzzle to solve. It's apparentl...
• [2008-12-19] The Best Sed Cheatsheet in the World (Tech,Utils) Sed is an under appreciated tool of remarkable power. It can be ...
• [2008-12-15] WinXP Environment variables (Tech,Utils) The following is a list of environment variables that are availa...
• [2008-12-15] WinXP Command Line Commands (Tech,Utils) The following is a list of commands that can be used in Windows ...
• [2008-12-14] Useful Clearcase Commands (Tech,SCM) Base clearcase has a large number of commands and each command h...
• [2008-12-13] Tricky Binary Search (Tech,Java,Brown-Dragon) Ranga galloped out of the woods onto the clearing where Charlie ...
• [2008-12-12] I have begun! (Tech,Scheme-Lisp) HOORAY!!!!!!!