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If you do not know ohcount, you should; the guys at ohloh.net have GPL’d one of their core components, namely the one that allows you to perform source code line counts in your own projects. Neat and useful!
However, the current ohcount distribution (which you can download from this link) does not build out-of-the-box in Leopard. [...]

It’s fun to find out how to tackle the same task in different programming languages; in this case, it’s all about doing HTTP requests over a network: fortunately, there are networking libraries in virtually all major programming languages. In my current project, I’m generating wrappers easing the access to the core of the project itself, [...]

There’s an interesting discussion going on these days on Ruby blogs about, basically, how to avoid one of the most common, annoying, easy-to-create bugs in any programming language: calling a method on a null reference (or pointer, depending on your language).

This single issue happens all the time, in garbage-collected and non-managed languages, static and dynamic, [...]

I’ve just uploaded a new version of my Delicious Library to BibTex Converter, which might fix some issues for some users. Thanks to Hernun for the testing!

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: March 4th, 2007
Programming Language: Ruby
Tools: TextMate
Platforms: Linux, Windows, Mac
Download: bibtexrb.zip
Licence: Creative Commons Public Domain
This Ruby script creates a BibTeX representation of the books stored in a Delicious Library database. The script loads the XML file where the library contents are stored, parses it looking for book entries, and outputs [...]

Introduction
I have been working as a software developer since 1996, and as such I’ve used a variety of different languages, both compiled and interpreted. But the who languages that I know and use most today, are two somewhat different ones, C# and Ruby. I will begin my presentation with a short explanation of both, providing [...]