I recently suspected the dreaded buffer overrun in a project I’m hacking for work. These can be a huge pain to find, especially if your code has a considerable amount of mallocs and fails irregularly. After dismissing the urge to just write it all in python (wasn’t practical for the application) I decided to learn [...]
Archive for the ‘os x’ Category
29 Jun
ThingsILearned User Case
I have a TON of things to post about this past week and the amazing amount of thingsilearned at the doccom Plone sprint hosted by google. I also want to share some stories about the awesomeness that is the google campus, but for now I just want to note my current feeling of awesomeness toward [...]
7 Jun
OS X Terminal – Prompt Format
As I’ve alluded to previously I like to customize my terminal as I spend plenty of time in it. I typically go with an old school green on black, though sometimes I go with a simple black on white depending on my mood. A lot of terminal settings unfortunately aren’t customizable from the preferences. One [...]
29 May
CImgLib – A Simple Image Class for PNG Files.
I wrote a bit about it before but while working on the Seperation of Reflections project I needed a simple C++ image library. I experimented with several over a few hours, most had just way too much stuff for me to quickly dive into so I ended up writing my own small image API. All [...]
7 May
Emacs for Macs
About 4 years ago at Gustavus I watched one of my professors in the only computer science class I took there completely rearange and edit a large text file in a matter of seconds using only the keyboard. I was amazed and realized I was still in the dark ages of both programing and especially [...]
4 May
Combating Internet Addiction
I’ve been insanely busy the past few weeks finishing up final projects, homeworks, and examinations. I have some cool things to post when I get a chance but for now I’m leaving a simple productivity tip. My work revolves completely around computers which in my opinion have become more of a distraction than an assistant [...]
26 Apr
Xcode Editor – Kinda Sucks
Scince my harddrive died a month ago I haven’t been able to find the mac version of emacs I installed 2 years ago and loved ever since. So lately I’ve been having to use Xcode a lot more. Sure there are a lot of nice things about it that supposedly make building projects and debugging [...]
