August 19th, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s the quick story: I was hoping to win the Romanian lottery (6 winning numbers out of 49). On the website, they were having the list of the winning numbers from 1998 to now. So I copy-pasted them all into a text file, and wrote a quick and dirty script to count their appearances and […]
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April 3rd, 2007 | No Comments »
You can’t call yourself a programmer if you never used Grep (or diff, or wget, or regular expressions for the matter). I couldn’t call myself a programmer till the fourth year of college, btw..
Still, grep has a pretty big manual page, and being a casual grep user I never see the need to memorize […]
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March 30th, 2007 | 29 Comments »
I’ve talked a bit about this before : in my years of blogging I switched from a Blogspot account to Livejournal and finally, in 2004, to a self-hosted stand-alone blog. The main criteria for my CMS-blogging engine back then was simple: does it have RSS? can I have several Sections; is it nice-looking? Textpattern had […]
in Textpattern, Tutorials, Wordpress |