I See Dead Code

Im Licht der neulichen Python-Experimente muss man die Concurrency-Bibliothek von Java 1.5 [↪] sehr lobend erwähnen. Wenn man das manuelle Erstellen von Threads und das mühsame Kommunizieren über Locks oder blocking queues gewöhnt ist, dann ist der CompletionService zusammen mit Callables eine sehr elegante und codesparende API, um parallele Programme im producer-consumer scheme zu implementieren. [...]

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I have tried to optimize the TigerXML parser in STA [↪] a bit, the results (graphs are stored in memory, with a 55 MiB corpus, on my Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz): unoptimized: 61.01s optimized: 39.68s That still seemed a bit too slow to me, and I decided to try out some parallelization: since the ID [...]

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Die IDE an sich Nach einem Jahr verschärftem Toolmonkeyism auf der Arbeit bin ich zu der Überzeugung gelangt, dass auch beim Python-Programmieren ein wenig IDE-Unterstützung nicht schlecht wäre. Eclipse (besonders das erstaunlich stabile 3.3) wächst einem dann doch ans Herz. Nicht dass ich für Python unbedingt Ctrl-1 bräuchte (z.b. den infernalischen Java-Typinferenz-Hack, Variablen ohne Typ [...]

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Turns out that leaving work early and biking home really fast was one of today’s better ideas. Soon after I got home and had finished showering, it started to rain heavily. Normally, I would have been somewhere along the Isar at that time. This way, I could enjoy the cool brought by the rain inside. [...]

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On my last day on the old project, I just ran some statistics over the code. Over nine months, I’ve touched 494 of 513 source files in our project at least once, which is 96.3%. All the automatic refactorings in Eclipse have made this all too easy.

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Dear WordPress Developers, I won’t even explain to you what is wrong with this statement above. CDATA and Doubly-Escaped Entities So let’s see. In theory, the XML snippets <bla><![CDATA[&auml;]]></bla> and <bla>&amp;auml;</bla> represent the same DOM tree. In order to see that this is actually true, one can use the Swiss Army Knife of XML handling, [...]

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Having completed the sample solutions for the final exam, the course is now officially complete and the sources for all slides, exercise sheets and example programs as well as sample solutions for all exercises can be downloaded. I plan to give another course like that in the future, but in the meantime somebody else might [...]

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Content Types in Eclipse do not only feel like spoilers bolted on to a pig in order to make it run faster – they also feel like if the pig decided not to like these spoilers at all. Okay, I do admit that we are not using content types as conceived. Just keep in mind [...]

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Well, this post is only here to be a public test of WP-Syntax, a syntax coloring plugin for WordPress. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 from itertools import islice   def fib(): x, y = 1, 1 while True: yield x x, y = y, x + y   for num [...]

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