Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Upgrades

Upgrading oldish releases are a pain. I tried “official” ways to upgrade my Saucy Salamander Eeepc. No way. I got to do it the hard way, treating that Ubuntu like the Debian it is underneath. A power blow of apt-fu: %s/saucy/wily/gc :wq apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade Now, that’s taking an hellish of time on…

GCC5 and LibertyEiffel

From: JIT-compilation using GCC 5 | Red Hat Developer Blog This post is about something more user-visible: as of GCC 5, GCC’s code-generation backend can now be built as a shared library. … The new library in GCC 5 is named libgccjit, since it can be used to implement Just-In-Time compilation within a language interpreter.…

How to differentiate between an Average and a Good Programmer?

 How to differentiate between an Average and a Good Programmer?   Oh my! It’s so true! javarevisited looks like a really good programming blog as I found gems like«10 Articles Every Programmer Must Read » among What Every Programmer Should Know about Memory What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetichey I already knew…

Vim lessons

Oldies but goldies. I found those in the Download directory at work. I downloaded them in 2006, 9 years ago. Of course they are still ripe and useful, as vi/vim is a wonderful, time-resistant tool