Thursday, May 25, 2006

[Regex] Mastering ...

Hi all,

I purchased this book "Mastering Regular Expressions", 2nd Ed, by Jeffrey Friedl.
This book treats regex as a language on its own, and explains all the intricacies of crafting a regex, advanced syntaxes, regexes in various languages etc.
After 3-4 chapters, uhf... it's really heavy reading!, since I have lot of work nowadays, just managing to read a page/two per week!

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Ani

Friday, May 12, 2006

[General - programming] Language features with dual behavior

Hi all,

Recently while writing some Python ane Perl code, I noticed that the features provided by the language are useful in dual roles. Perl is anyway famous for TIMTOWTDI.

Consider comments - multiline comments.

There is no dedicated multiline comment character-sequence in Perl/Python, but the common(and probably official way) is

In Perl:

Use the perl module documentation(pod) lines
E.g.
=head
... some code ...
=cut

In Python:

Use the triple-quote string
E.g.
"""
... code...
"""

Even though C/C++ provides the /* ... */ sequence, they cannot nest, so generally the
preprocessor is used to get rid of huge lines of code with

#if 0
...code...
#endif


Interesting....

[update-2/6/10]
After a short sprint with Lua, I found even Lua has a multiline string ([[ ... ]]) , similar to the triple-quote strings of Python, which can be turned into a comment with a leading --:

--[[
A multi
line

comment
]]

[update: 21-May-2015]
In bash, the null command can be used for multi-line comments!

: ' some
long boring
stuff
'

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Ani

Monday, April 24, 2006

Tracing in linux

#include
#include

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Friday, April 21, 2006

AJAX

Hi Guys,
I hope most of you have heard about AJAX. Its the new buzzword

Here are some useful Links:
http://adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ajaxintro2/#resources

We recently ajaxed a blog tool and these resources were very useful.

Those who want to try out AJAX , this would be good place to start.

[Only me?] It looks like ...

... I am the only one who is posting!
Are all of u busy or lost interest in Blogging already??

Atleast I know the status of a few who are geographically close to me:
Some are lost in TRANSLATIONs and some are lost in a DATABASE of ACTIVE items! ;)

Hmm...
I dont know Reddy's status, Ratish is very busy

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Ani

[Book] Advance Linux Programming

Hi all,

ALP is a well known book in the Linux world, as of now I've completed 3/4 of the book, and I did not get bored at any point. It's really interesting, and highlights on so many concepts that I faintly remember reading from Advanced programming in Unix env by stevens and many unknown.

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Ani

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

[General - Inspiring] The mastermind behind the product we work on

Here is a link which describes the founder of Winphoria (Now the Core Networks Division of Motorola) - Murali

http://www.norwestvc.com/portfolio/p_aravamudan.aspx

He has 17 patents and 25 pending!


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Ani

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

SQL 99 - CASE

SQL 99 supports
CASE statement within SELECT

like

SELECT col_a, col_b
CASE col_c
WHEN col_c = 1 THEN 'ONE'
WHEN col_c = 2 THEN 'TWO'
ELSE 'OTHER'
END
FROM tbl;

Probably this does an outer join and a Union, not sure, but this is handy and much easier to use than JOINs.

If any of u know the internals of this , u'r welcome to describe it here.

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Ani