Calcc, A Programmers’ Calculator

Published at January 16, 2012 ·  1 min read

This is a lost post from my early blogs around 2012, rediscovered and posted here in mid-2020 I have been looking for a command-line programmers’ calculator for a while. I needed it to do the usual things like base number conversion, bit shifting and masking, and so on. I searched for quite a while and couldn’t find anything. Almost all were GUI, which I didn’t want, or were some ridiculous price, which I couldn’t justify being a programmer myself....

Rails Tutorial

Published at December 28, 2011 ·  1 min read

This is a lost post from my early blogs around 2012, rediscovered and posted here in mid-2020 Spent the last day or two doing Michael Hartl’s excellent Ruby on Rails tutorial. I had a vague idea I wanted to learn Ruby, but once I googled for tutorials it became pretty clear that Rails was the way to go for web-based apps. Michael’s tutorial got lots of recommendations, so I jumped right in....