Posted in General on Mar 25th, 2008 No Comments »
I finally got my F5D7132 wireless repeater working. The trick was to ignore all the auto-negotiate ‘one push setup’ rubbish and actually connect to the web interface of the device.
I don’t use windows, so the installation CD was no good to me, but I found some docs from Belkin that the NIC for the device […]
Posted in workfriendly, coffee on Mar 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
Motivated by Tom Moertel’s ‘A coders guide to coffee’, I’ve been experimenting with roasting my own coffee on the cheap. Here’s my equipment bought to date:
- Bodum 5679 C-Mill Electric Coffee Grinder
- Rival popcorn popper (cost me a fiver from ebay).
- Aeropress brewer
- Digital oven Thermometer 100169 E19
N.B. I didn’t start off roasting: a […]
Posted in programming, factor on Mar 12th, 2008 4 Comments »
Yesterday I was musing over why it took me so much longer to get going with Factor compared to the other languages I’ve learnt over the years. I came up with this:
Factor’s base language is very fundamental and primitive in nature. Programming it is similar to programming with assembler language: you have to keep track […]
Posted in workfriendly, ssh on Mar 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
Uncovered an awesome ssh trick today. At work we use ssh extensively to run stuff on remote unix and windows servers, using SSH agents to handle batch job authentication. That’s all sweet because on unix you don’t need to install client software on each box, and you don’t need a root account - just copy […]
Posted in workfriendly, programming, factor on Mar 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Dan Ehrenberg completes a second short post on garbage collection, expanding on his excellent ‘Quick intro to garbage collection‘ post. Although Dan’s focus is on research prior to implementing a better collector for the factor language, the lucid explanations and chatty style make this a must-read for anybody with a passing interest in language runtime […]
Posted in workfriendly, programming, testing on Mar 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Is it just me or do whitebox unit tests really bog you down?
I do pretty much all my coding in a test-first stylee; it’s the only way to code if you’re snatching 20mins here and there for spare time projects. Much of the time these tests serve as scaffolding to keep me on the […]
