Bringing try catch blocks to C

C, How-to, Programming

Posted: October 19th, 2007

Error handling in C is never an easy task. Pretty much any function can return an error, and if you really want to have stable and bug free code, you must be able to handle them. The problem, of course, is that having to always check for errors quickly leads to bloated ugly code.
C++, Java […]

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Writting your first WordPress plugin

How-to, Programming, php, wordpress

Posted: May 25th, 2007

Wordpress is a highly used and easily customizable platform for content creation and management. In this post I’ll guide you through the basic structure and steps required to create a simple and useful wordpress plugin.
The first step is to define the plugin header that wordpres uses to determine which files it should include in the […]

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How to build a linux Cluster - Part III

Cluster, How-to

Posted: May 17th, 2007

This post series documents how I built a powerful and scalable Linux cluster using only free software and off the shelf components. To build our cluster we are going to use three pieces of software:

Fedora Core 3
DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot on Linux)
Condor

On the first part of the series, I showed you how you can install […]

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How to build a linux Cluster - Part II

Cluster, How-to

Posted: May 13th, 2007

This post series documents how I built a powerful and scalable Linux cluster using only free software and off the shelf components. To build our cluster we are going to use three pieces of software:

Fedora Core 3
DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot on Linux)
Condor

On the first part of the series, I showed you how you can install […]

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How to build a linux Cluster - Part I

Cluster, How-to

Posted: May 10th, 2007

This post series documents how I built a powerful and scalable Linux cluster using only free software and off the shelf components. To build our cluster we are going to use three pieces of software:

Fedora Core 3
DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot on Linux)
Condor

Fedora Core 3 is base distribution since it’s freely available and well supported by […]

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Seamlessly integrate your favorite Linux apps with OSX

How-to, Mac

Posted: April 26th, 2007

Under the polished look and feel of Apple’s Tiger OSX operating system lie all the ruggedness and power of a Unix based system. In this post I show you how you can seamlessly integrate your favorite Linux applications in to the OSX world using nothing but software that you already have, or that you can […]

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Writing a generic Makefile

How-to, Programming

Posted: March 20th, 2007

Building custom make files for relatively small projects which result in just one executable is rather tedious. Luckily, Makefile itself provides us with a way to create one single Makefile that works for most cases.
The “trick” lies in two make macros, $<, $* and in wildcard matching. The first macro is simply the […]

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