This post is a brief technival overview of Unicode, a widely used standard for multilingual character representation, and the family of UTF-x encoding algorithms. First a brief introduction to …
December 2010 · 4 minutes read
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Here’s a brief but important advice for Android app developers: starting with your first app, prepare for the situation where a company wants to acquire one of your applications. Use a unique signing …
December 2010 · One minute read
I’ve just learned about a particularly nice Linux shell command: compgen
$ compgen -c … list all the commands you could run.
$ compgen -a … list all the aliases you could run.
$ compgen -b … list all …
December 2010 · One minute read
Today Android version 2.3 (Gingerbread, API Level 9) was released, including an updated Android plugin for Eclipse and the API Level 9 SDK.
The release includes some very welcome updates for both …
December 2010 · 2 minutes read
An interesting post about the private torrent tracker what.cd surfaced on HN today, portraying the attempts and final success of creating a highly scalable torrent tracker software. It’s an …
October 2010 · One minute read
This post is about Python, Threads, Multiprocessing, the GIL, and a great talk by David Beazley titled “Inside the Python GIL”.
Threads Threads make it possible to execute multiple pieces of code in …
October 2010 · 2 minutes read