Some shell scripting languages read scripts as they are interpreted. I wrote this script as an experiment in looping without a loop. This functioned on an older version of ksh on HP-UX, but I haven’t been able to find a newer version of a shell that this still works on.# This script returns 0 through […]
When Halloween rolled around I had been listening to Jonathan Coulton’s “Thing a Week” podcasts on endless loop, and being a code monkey myself the choice of a costume wasn’t hard to come by. Code Monkey. Very simple, man. Found a Woochie “Ape Man” latex appliance from mostlydead.com. I preferred this over a lot of […]
Wow… so far, off to a bad start.We’ll call this a place-holder for now… ELF, ld & shared object fun LD_LIBRARY_PATH Most developers have encountered LD_LIBRARY_PATH either in testing shared libraries used in their project or in development of their own code. It is used to instruct the runtime linker to search for libraries in […]
gigapogo.com has been empty for so long and now, for it’s grand debut, it’s a WordPress blog of all things? While working on development projects I often find myself digging through my old source code, bookmarks, emails, documents, wiki pages, or even Unix shell history trying to figure out exactly how I had done something. […]
