Review of "Eric Sink on the Business of Software"
April 9, 2010
Eric Sink on the Business of Software
Eric Sink
Apress (March 20, 2006)
This is a book targeted to people (more specifically, programmers) who are thinking about starting a software business, or are working in a startup or small software business.
The author is the founder of SourceGear, an Illinois based company which develops and sells version control tools for developers, and through his own experiences he shows us the lessons he has learned; many times by making a lot of mistakes.
Review of "ANSI Common Lisp"
March 10, 2010
ANSI Common Lisp
Paul Graham
Prentice Hall (November 12, 1995)
This is a really good book for newcomers to Common Lisp, however take note that this is not a book for beginning programmers. This book will not guide you on the details of how to get, install and launch a Common Lisp environment. If you don't feel able to do that on your own then this book might not be for you.
The pace of the book is fast, and the information is presented ...
Trees as Linked Lists in Common Lisp
February 23, 2010
If you are starting to learn Common Lisp, and have already read the chapter about "Cons" from an introductory book (also called cons cells), then you could try the following exercise. How to represent a tree using nothing but conses; and abstract that implementation with functions to create and traverse the tree.
PLEASE NOTE, that if you need to represent trees in a production program you shouldn't use lists as described here unless you have a good reason. This is only an exercise in understanding how cons cells work.
Other uses for OpenSSH
May 31, 2009
Many people use OpenSSH to connect to a remote machine, but many don't know that you can actually do other interesting things with it, other than just opening a remote login shell. In this article I'll show you a few of them.
We will see how to:
Copy files from one machine to another securely.
Forward ports from your machine through the remote machine, creating a secure tunnel for your unsecured applications.
Increase the security of your OpenSSH communications.
Going to PyCon 2008
March 10, 2008
There's only 4 days left before I fly to Chicago to attend the PyCon 2008 conference, the biggest event for the Python community. This will be the second time that I go to PyCon, last year the conference was held in Addison Texas and I really had a great time, I met cool people, visited a few restaurants and learned interesting things about Python.
Here are some photos that I took last year, and you can see more on my flickr set:
I'm sure this year's PyCon will be great!
Update: PyCon 08 is over, here are some of the photos that I took.
It's nice to meet intelligent people and be surrounded by all this enthusiasm around this cool language and all the projects that are being built with it.
Installing a Realtek RTL8185 wireless card
February 25, 2008
In this post I explain how I made my wireless card with a Realtek RTL8185 chipset work in Slackware GNU/Linux.
I recently moved to a new apartment and the Internet modem had to be placed in the bedroom, separate from the living room where I have my workstation, so I had to choose between buying a wireless card for my pc or drilling a hole through the wall to slip in an ethernet cable.
Since I don't have a drill, and my wife wouldn't have liked a cable going through the middle of the makeup mirror, I got an Encore Electronics Wireless-G PCI Adapter (ENLWI-G2). Actually this is just a card with a Realtek RTL8185 chipset on it, and you can get the Linux drivers from the Realtek website.
