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		<title>Dear e-Reader Producers and Engineers</title>
		<link>http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/dear-e-reader-producers-and-engineers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blockofcode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an avid reader, here is what I expect to find in an e-reader. Media support The more the better, as long as it is a text media file. I do not need image support (as in galleries, photos), I do not need audio support (as in mp3, ogg), I do not need movie support [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blockofcode.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6281199&amp;post=270&amp;subd=blockofcode&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet GMenu, Sibling of DMenu</title>
		<link>http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/meet-gmenu-sibling-of-dmenu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 18:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blockofcode</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/?p=247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been using wmii for quite some time now and right now can&#8217;t think of ever using a non tiling window manager ever again. Before wmii I tried dwm but didn&#8217;t quite like it as much as wmii. But what I liked most about dwm and wmii is their &#8220;application launchers&#8221;: wimenu and dmenu. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blockofcode.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6281199&amp;post=247&amp;subd=blockofcode&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unbind/Rebind Ctrl+D in Gedit</title>
		<link>http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/unbindrebind-ctrld-in-gedit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 09:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blockofcode</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[binding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After quite some googleing and experimenting I finally managed to change the behavior of Gedit and that annoying Ctrl+D shortcut. By default, pressing Ctrl+D deletes a line&#8230; very useful, I&#8217;m deleting lines all the time :roll-eyes: To change this to something much more useful &#8211; like cutting the line and putting it into the clipboard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blockofcode.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6281199&amp;post=223&amp;subd=blockofcode&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Require, Include, Once, Autoload?</title>
		<link>http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/require-include-once-autoload/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blockofcode</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have seen a few PHP performance tips lately that have me worried. A common tip found, is something along the lines of &#8220;Don&#8217;t use require_once/include_once&#8221; and also &#8220;Don&#8217;t use autoload.&#8221; The implications of following these tips are troublesome to say the least. Require_once and include_once are PHPs equivalent to Cs #include with an include [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blockofcode.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6281199&amp;post=217&amp;subd=blockofcode&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Code Stutter</title>
		<link>http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/code-stutter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blockofcode</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[code convention]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[name convention]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/?p=194</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In all my experience as programmer (~9 years) I have contemplated, seen and created a few coding and naming conventions. But there was one kind of convention that always struck me as odd and lately as extremely annoying. Here&#8217;s a contrived example: class MySQL { function sql_connect() { //... } function sql_query() { //... } [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blockofcode.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6281199&amp;post=194&amp;subd=blockofcode&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PHP and PDO – Use it!</title>
		<link>http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/php-and-pdo-use-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blockofcode</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/?p=190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of novice programmers exploring object orientation get their feet wet by implementing a database abstraction class. It&#8217;s a good learning assignment, but has no more use in production code ever since PHP introduced PDO. Mostly I see them for MySQL, Google finds ~10 million results for &#8220;php mysql class&#8221;, but there&#8217;s also a few to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blockofcode.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6281199&amp;post=190&amp;subd=blockofcode&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I’m learning Scala</title>
		<link>http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/im-learning-scala/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blockofcode</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/?p=177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Being bored I was browsing Wikipedia, reading about languages that use Java&#8217;s VM. I was reading the Groovy article, thinking that it looked interesting enough to start learning it. But then I got to the end where Groovy&#8217;s author, James Strachan, said: I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming in Scala [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blockofcode.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6281199&amp;post=177&amp;subd=blockofcode&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I want LISP but I don&#8217;t want LISP</title>
		<link>http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/i-want-lisp-but-i-dont-want-lisp/</link>
		<comments>http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/i-want-lisp-but-i-dont-want-lisp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blockofcode</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/?p=171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[LISP basically has everything I as a developer want. But somehow I just can&#8217;t bring myself to touch it with a ten-foot-pole. Maybe it&#8217;s the parenthesis ridden syntax, maybe it&#8217;s the functional paradigm, maybe it&#8217;s its mostly academic nature. Maybe it&#8217;s my preference for curly-brace languages, or my preference for object orientation. Maybe it&#8217;s those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blockofcode.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6281199&amp;post=171&amp;subd=blockofcode&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ImageSlicer Progress…</title>
		<link>http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/imageslicer-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blockofcode</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[image slicing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[window drawing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The past two weeks I have been working on a small tool to slice images using Python, PIL and pygtk. I decided to use Glade for the user interface, and it&#8217;s great. It really simplifies coding GTK applications and lets me concentrate on handling events, writing callbacks. It is still necessary to know how GTK [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blockofcode.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6281199&amp;post=164&amp;subd=blockofcode&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lua Userdata with user data</title>
		<link>http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/lua-userdata-with-user-data/</link>
		<comments>http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/lua-userdata-with-user-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blockofcode</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[arbitrary properties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[custom properties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[user properties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[userdata]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blockofcode.wordpress.com/?p=149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I play around with Lua, and recently I decided it&#8217;s time to learn how to write modules in C/C++. I implemented a simple userdata with a few methods and property getter/setters. And while writing the Lua script to test the module, I noticed you could not set arbitrary properties on the userdata (of course [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blockofcode.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6281199&amp;post=149&amp;subd=blockofcode&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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