@ wrote... (10 years, 7 months ago)

This was originally the majority of this post: Start a django project the right way but I've decided to put in it's own post instead.

I'm assuming you're on OSX. If you're on Linux most of these steps will be the same. If you're on Windows… Install VMWare and then install Linux.

I've added a tl;dr at the end.

Although I have tweaked this over the years, the original code came from (I think, I've long since lost the bookmark) klymyshyn.com

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Category: tech, Tags: python, shell
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@ wrote... (10 years, 7 months ago)

Don't check a pointer before deleting it, just delete it.

// don't do this
if ( p ) delete p;

// just do this
delete p;

// ie: this doesn't crash or do anything bad
int* p = NULL;
delete p;

// but you probably need something like this
#define NUL_DEL( p ) { delete p; p = NULL; }
NUL_DEL(p)

But seriously, this isn't the dark ages, you really want to be doing this.

std::shared_ptr<int> p;
...
p.reset(); // no need to set to NULL (or rather null_ptr)
Category: tech, Tags: cpp, programming, stl
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@ wrote... (10 years, 8 months ago)

I know next to nothing about Javascript so I'll need somebody who knows about this stuff to weigh in, but this is how I got jquery to load asynchronously and then fire callbacks.

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Category: tech, Tags: html, javascript
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@ wrote... (10 years, 8 months ago)

Depending on the hardware involved, you can dramatically speed up an ssh pipe by changing the encryption type, or turning off compression.

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Category: tech, Tags: linux, ssh
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@ wrote... (10 years, 8 months ago)

From what I can tell everybody uses net-snmp, and from what I've seen the documentation is atrocious.

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Category: tech, Tags: snmp
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@ wrote... (10 years, 9 months ago)

I'm not sure how else to name this entry, it's rather complicated. So what I was finally able to achieve is to pass a boost::bind to a boost::bind with placeholders, with templated callbacks. I'm not gonna lie, this took me awhile to figure out.

The rationale for all of this was that I had a parent class called group, and this group had the list of boost::asio::deadline_timer's and the boost::asio::io_service running in a thread. I wanted the ability for child objects to put work in that thread.

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Category: tech, Tags: boost, cpp, templates
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@ wrote... (10 years, 9 months ago)

Django works much better if you do things the right way. Here are the steps for future me.

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Category: tech, Tags: django
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@ wrote... (10 years, 9 months ago)

Part of my Why is simple hard? series.

Do you even typedef bro?

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Category: tech, Tags: cpp, programming, simple
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@ wrote... (10 years, 9 months ago)

Part of my Why is simple hard? series.

Like most people with taste, I despise Hungarian notation. But, at the end of the day it really is only a style issue and easy enough to fix with a search & replace.

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Category: tech, Tags: cpp, programming, simple
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@ wrote... (10 years, 9 months ago)
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
Brian Kernighan

This has been bugging me for years, and it's getting worse. In some type of ironic paradox, it seems like the worst programmers are (in some ways) the best programmers.

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Category: tech, Tags: programming, simple
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