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OK, so I haven’t bought new RAM in years, but still, $61 for 4GB of ram?
Unreal.
I snuck a feature into Answerbag… the ask a question bookmarklet. Anytime you’re on a page, and you want to ask a question about it, using the bookmarklet will automatically fill in the …
In my last post, I covered using guards with Erlang’s ETS select/2 functionality.
However, what if you’re looking to select a count of the number of matches for a given pattern? Lets use …
Not every time we want to pull data out of an erlang ETS table is it as straightfoward as the previous example. Sometimes we want to get all values that are greater than zero, rather than just …
I hate having to look stuff up to get examples, especially when I have to click on more than the first google link to figure things out. As a result, here’s a very, very basic intro do doing …
It’s unfortunate that I’ve reached this point, since I thought quicksilver was a really awesome piece of software. Unfortunately, it’s just gotten to be completely unstable. Beach …
For better or worse, I’ll be doing c# development for a while. I’ve never been particularly fond of Windows, so we’ll see how things go.
I can say that I did manage to blue screen …
I have never, ever seen this before. I don’t even know how the table was created with a different collation. However, I had all my other tables created with the character set utf8, no …
I haven’t been using vim for very long, but I’ve gotten over the initial learning curve of getting used to the different editing modes. With some help from the guys in #vim on …
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