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Inspired by my little son's eagerness to count when he sees groups of things that (he thinks) can be grouped together these days, I wanted to post my often used, tiny, fairly naïve extension to Ruby's Array class that I call count_by.This... [Read More]

Reading the Pragmatic Programmer's PragPub from March (I must admit I don't have/take the time to read them regularly enough) I stumbled upon Scala's sliding function on Arrays. This creates a sliding window of consecutive sub arrays of an array. So an Array(1,2,3,4).sliding(2)... [Read More]

I must say that I quite like what I encounter of the Scala language in Martin Odersky's online "Functional Programming in Scala" course at EPFL (as well as the course itself!). It is almost as expressive as my favourite language these days,... [Read More]

When launching Skype in 64-bit Ubuntu 12.10 on my Asus U35J the webcam image was all topsy-turvy. Since I don’t live in Australia, or something (tsk-tsk), this was not really cutting it for me. Some quick googling led me to this forum... [Read More]

The other day I invested in the long awaited (in the EU, that is) Rocksmith music game. This lets you play with your good old electric guitar or bass hooked up to your PS3, instead of the plastic gadgets made infamous in... [Read More]

Sometimes I need to get data out of tables buried in PDFs, so I've written a tiny adaptable Ruby hack for when copying and pasting doesn't cut it - exploiting a couple of excellent libraries. Here's an example.Loading...(Admittedly not the most elegant of... [Read More]

Today I wondered how to add nice-looking gists to future posts here on my dynamic themed blog, and found the following solution: http://blog.moski.me/2012/01/gist-with-bloggers-dynamic-views.html (Thanks Moski.) That’s all. Update 10/12/2014: The script has now moved. (Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24005430/moski-gist-blogger-not-loading-gists-in-chrome-for-gists-in-blogger-dynamic-vie) [Read More]