Archive for April, 2006

An Abomination Against God and Man

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

There’s nothing quite like using the C preprocessor while writing perl.
It imposes a few constraints (e.g. no single pound-sign comments at the start of a line, else it thinks they’re cpp directives, watch out for c-style comments since those will get pulled, etc.), but it’s actually sort of liveable. I’ve got a little makefile that […]

This is supposed to make it better?

Friday, April 21st, 2006

At work, someone just, out of the blue, sent out email about coding standards that we should start following. My personal favorite:
4. For simple double for loop, the second for loop do not need to indent, and the closing “}” can be on the same line. Note that for the looping index, proper spaces are […]

More ICQ Hillarity

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

So, per my earlier complaints about random people sending me messages and gaim/icq not properly denying it like they should, I wrote a little gaim plugin of my own. If somebody sends me something, and they’re not on my buddy list, it immediately responds with “Go Away.”
I have it logging, and skim it on occasion, […]

Billions of Blistering Blue Barnacles!

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

Bob Ross: The Videogame
I need that. Everyone needs that.