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Non-recursive, fast, compact stable sort implementation in C++ 19 Aug 2013 | 12:16 am
This blog post discusses stable sort implementations in various languages, and it also presents a non-recursive, fast and compact mergesort implementation in C++. The implementation runs the original ...
How to send Unix file descriptors between processes? 13 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm
This blog post explains how to send Unix file descriptors between processes. The example shown below sends from parent to child, but the general idea works the other way round as well, and it works ev...
webfind: How many programming languages can you speak ... at the same time? 9 Aug 2013 | 01:28 am
When I wrote the following code which compiles and/or executes in 10 different programming languages (C, C++, Perl, TeX, LaTeX, PostScript, sh, bash, zsh and Prolog) and prints a different message in ...
webfind: Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing 9 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
This document is a case study of writing and bootstrapping a compiler for a simple (but structured) language from scratch. It targets i386 Linux. It starts from a single hex-to-binary converter, and r...
webfind: The smallest compiler (it compiles Brainfuck) 8 Aug 2013 | 11:45 pm
I've found the smallest compiler so far. It's a Brainfuck compiler written in x86 assembly, and it compiles to an i386 Linux binary. Downloaded it from here and play with it on Linux (i386 or amd64): ...
How to create a PDF file with a single hyperlink in it 22 May 2013 | 04:00 pm
This blog post explains how to create a PDF file with a single hyperlink in it. Such PDF files are useful as hyperlinks uploaded to prezi.com presentations, because as of 2014-05-22 prezi.com doesn't ...
How to send ZIP-compressed, streaming AJAX response 22 Apr 2013 | 01:24 am
This blog post explains how to send a ZIP-compressed HTTP response to an AJAX (XMLHttpRequest) request in a streaming way. By streaming we mean sending a prefix of the HTTP response in a way that the ...
How to list Android apps in the order they were installed 22 Apr 2013 | 12:25 am
This blog post explains how to list applications on an Android device (phone, tablet etc.) in the order they were installed. This list can be used to copy the most recently installed application from ...
How to download all .apk files from an Android device to the computer 31 Mar 2013 | 07:58 pm
This blog post explains how to download all .apk files (application software package installers) from an Android device (phone, tablet, etc.) to your computer. The steps described here work even if th...
Calling JavaScript method references 11 Feb 2013 | 10:51 pm
This blog post is a documentation of a quirk in the JavaScript language: method calls and method reference calls don't operate on the same receiver (thisArg), i.e. cat.foo() and (cat.foo)() are not eq...
