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C++: An STL-like circular buffer

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:28:00 +1100

Pete Goodliffe is running a series of articles on his blog on writing a circular buffer in C++, to demonstrate how to write STL-like containers.

Part one

Part two

Python's Struct Class

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:13:00 +1100

O'Reilly are running a good walkthrough of Python's Struct class, which provides functions for packing and unpacking data into and from strings.

Web services with Ruby on Rails

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:58:00 +1100

While this article on creating Web services using Ruby on Rails is geared for Windows users, the principles and tools are all cross-platform, and will work just as well on Linux.

Mastering Eclipse v3.4, Part two

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:45:00 +1100

Part two of Developerworks' Mastering Eclipse series is now available, this time looking at the Java Development Tools, Refactoring, and building and running projects.

Bash sub-shells

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:49:00 +1100

Mitch Frazier explains how to make use of parentheses to execute groups of commands in the background within shell scripts, in his Linux Journal article on subshells.

Beginners Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Perl

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:03:00 +1100

O'Reilly have published a fantastic introduction to perl's object oriented features, which will be handy for anyone like me who finds that their perl code tends to become unwieldly after a few hundred lines.

What's new in PHP 5.3: the object interface

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:31:00 +1100

John Mertic has put together a write-up on a number of the new features available in PHP 5.3, looking at changes to the object interface, in this first part.

He takes a look at improved static methods, circular garbage collection and late static binding, amongst other features, and provides a number of examples of code.

Introduction to Spring Faces

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:19:00 +1100

Jeremy Grelle has written an introduction to Spring Faces at JSFCentral. The Spring Framework is yet another open-source application framework for Java (just how many are there now?) and Spring Faces provides an interface between it and Java Server Faces.

lxml: High-performance XML parsing in Python

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:47:00 +1100

Liza Daly has written an article on Python's lxml library, a high-performance xml parser, giving some examples on performing iterative parsing and some very good advice on making your code perform better.

Mastering Eclipse V3.4

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:09:00 +1100

If you're thinking of moving to an IDE for developing code, then you can't go past this tutorial, which provides a beginners guide to Eclipse 3.4.

The first installment covers the basics - the Workbench, projects and workspaces, customising toolbars and menus, as well as keyboard shortcuts and fonts.

Python Data Persistence using MySQL

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:28:00 +1100

Packt Publishing have published a piece on getting your python scripts to talk to a MySQL database.

Applied regular expressions in PHP

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:57:00 +1100

Linux.com are running a feature showing how to use regular expressions in PHP to provision a Linksys PAP2T VOIP adapter.

HugeTLB - Large Page Support in the Linux Kernel

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:27:00 +1100

Linux Gazette have published a piece on enabling and using HugeTLB - in other words, using large virtual memory pages within Linux applications.

Get to know GCC 4

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:33:00 +1100

GCC version 4 has been out for several years now, and anyone still using version 3 is probably living in a box ... or just has very, very specific requirements for their build environment. Nevertheless, IBM Developerworks are running an article detailing what's new in GCC 4.

Python 3.0 differences

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:54:00 +1100

Linux.com has a look at the backwards incompatible changes that will be part of the forthcoming Python 3.0