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Optimizing regular expressions
We lispers generally look down our noses at regular expressions. Regular expressions are ugly. They are not expressive. However, they are a reality of programming. When used with care, they can express complex text patterns concisely.
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Mar 26th, 2008 | Filed under TipsTags: regexp -
Extending Python with (almost) anything
Among the various methods of extending Python about which I have written, Python 2.5’s ctypes module is possibly the easiest.
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Mar 24th, 2008 | Filed under Software -
newLISP-mode updated
Tim Johnson has updated his emacs newLISP-mode. I’ve added a few customizations and posted them in projects.
Changelog for 0.25Added functions for sexp-cursor movement: newlisp-indent-and-move-next, newlisp-indent-and-move-back, newlisp-prev-opening-parens, newlisp-next-opening-parens
Improved newlisp-next-function, newlisp-previous-functionI made a few changes to his mode to make it suit me more:
Changed the symbol color from magenta to plum. I hate [...]
Mar 12th, 2008 | Filed under Software -
Threading in Django
Profitable use of threading in web development is rare, particularly when contending with Python’s global interpreter lock. There are a few notable exceptions to this.
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Mar 7th, 2008 | Filed under Software







