Articles for 2008

Automatic file closing in Lua Wednesday 19 at 09:59
A useful little Lua utility function called with_open_file which automatically opens and closes a file for you.
Meanwood Farm in the snow Sunday 23 at 07:22
We've had blizzards and gales in Yorkshire over the past few days, but this morning it was actually warmer and calmer than it has been for a while, even though there was about an inch of snow on my roof.
Using the GnomeDateEdit widget Sunday 23 at 12:39
Some notes about how to use the GnomeDateEdit widget from the libgnomeui library, and in particular how to work around a bug when using it for selecting only dates, not times.

Lua bug with −0 Sunday 6 at 10:33
In the current version of Lua a bug prevents a single function using both 0 and −0 numeric literals.

Miniblog

(nuggets of inanity)

Tuesday Apr 24th 2007, 16:54 »: Just took the annual web design survey that AListApart do. I don't realy consider myself to be a web designer, but I have been doing a lot of HTML and CSS lately.
Monday Apr 23rd 2007, 18:23 »: Strange, there appears to be a bare-knuckle boxing match going on in the field outside my flat. Wish they wouldn't make so much noise about it.
Thursday Mar 1st 2007, 18:47 »: “In its written form, Hebrew has no vowels, making it the ideal language for texting.”
—Said in jest on some Radio 4 programme just now.

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