Companies that support SOPA
Here is a handy list, copied on 2011-12-22, 21:30 UTC from http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Supporters.pdf, of the companies that openly support SOPA. It's handy in case some lobbyist persuades the US House of Representatives to remove the original file
Supercharged JavaScript Graphics, by Raffaele Cecco (O'Reilly, 2011)
I loved reviewing this book. Not only I learned a lot of new, cool tricks, the methods, tools and techniques I learned, from JavaScript code optimization to proper usage of jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap, were well worth the time invested in reading the book. The text flows well and the examples are easy to follow, understand and apply to your projects. When there is more ground to be covered, the book will point you in the right direction to continue playing with the technologies introduced.
Fair warning: JavaScript can be very alien to people who come from other languages and you have to be reasonably proficient with JavaScript to make full use of this book.
You can find this book at the O'Reilly website or on Amazon.
Disclosure: This book was provided by O'Reilly Media as part of their blogger review program. The version reviewed was the ePub version on a 1st-gen B&N Nook. All formats are DRM-free.
More Emacs - a better eshell
Some Emacs users live their entire lives without ever meeting eshell. Eshell is a command-line shell where you can run programs, list directories, copy files and do all kinds of things you would normally need a terminal window for. Eshell even made a cameo appearance in Tron Legacy, as the command-line interface to Encom's computers. Unfortunately, there is something it won't do: it's not easy to start more than one eshell session - when you invoke eshell for the second time, it goes back to the buffer the first eshell opened, normally called "*eshell*". I could invoke the "rename-uniquely" command manually after opening each eshell window (or before attempting to open a new one), but that's annoying (and I ofen forget it).
I keep eshell bound to C-$ (control-$ for the emacs-illiterate ou ^$ for really old-school folks - not that any keyboard I know of emits valid ASCII when someone presses Control-$). I often need more than one shell. "ansi-term" will do the buffer-renaming magic and I can start a number of those, but that's not really what I want - ansi-term runs the shell as a separate process. I use it when I need things I'd need another terminal for, like input and output redirection, but I'd prefer to use eshell when all I need is another shell.
Unfortunate people who don't use Emacs will think I would need to dig up the sources of eshell to add the rename-uniquely invocation and change them. I'll remind those poor folks than your init.el file is, in fact, executed when Emacs starts and, therefore, all I need to do is to change my binding from
(global-set-key (kbd "C-$") 'eshell)
to
(global-set-key (kbd "C-$") '(lambda () (interactive) (eshell) (rename-uniquely) ))
In case you are wondering, the "interactive" function is invoked to mark this function as a command. If I didn't do it (as I foolishly did earlier this morning, before reading this) I'd be greeted with
Wrong type argument: commandp, (lambda nil (eshell) (rename-uniquely))
That's nice, but not perfect. If you invoke it, you will notice your first eshell buffer is named "*eshell*<2>". That's bad.
It happens because the buffer is uniquely renamed every time it's created, not only when there already is a buffer named "*eshell*". For that, we need a little more code:
(global-set-key (kbd "C-$") '(lambda () (interactive) (if (member "*eshell*" (mapcar* 'buffer-name (buffer-list))) (progn (eshell) (rename-uniquely)) (eshell))))
OK. That was stupid. We test whether there is already a buffer named "*eshell*" and then we try to invoke eshell to create a new one, forgetting that eshell will also find the buffer called "*eshell*" and switch to it rather than creating a new one. We then, dumbly, rename our only eshell buffer.
This thing needs more brains.
Since I don't expect to have more than a handful eshells running (you really shouldn't try to), progressing through numbered buffer names until we find a free one should be a fine approach:
(global-set-key (kbd "C-$") '(lambda ()
(interactive)
(let ((i 1)
(found-a-name nil))
(while (not found-a-name)
(setq buffname
(concat "*eshell*<" (int-to-string i) ">"))
(setq found-a-name (not (member buffname
(mapcar* 'buffer-name
(buffer-list)))))
(if found-a-name
(eshell i)
(setq i (+ i 1))
)))))
Now we start from i = 1 and check if there is already a buffer named "*eshell*<i>". If there is not, create one with that name (passing the number to eshell) and end our search. This is doubly pretty, because the first solution would rename our first eshell as "*eshell*<2>". With this one, the first eshell is "*eshell*<1>", which is elegant. If you manually open an eshell, it'll be called "*eshell*", distinguishing it from our automatically named shells.
Still, as a friend of mine well pointed out, the code is really ugly. It'll also fail if the default name for eshell buffers is changed. In short, it's a mess. I felt compelled to do better:
(global-set-key (kbd "C-$") '(lambda () (interactive) (let ((i 1)) (while (member (concat eshell-buffer-name "<" (int-to-string i) ">") (mapcar* 'buffer-name (buffer-list))) (setq i (+ 1 i))) (eshell i))))
Much more concise and to-the-point. I like it.
Can you customize Eclipse like that?
A bug. Yes, they hit me too
After publishing this, I noticed the variable eshell-buffer-name is not defined until after you invoke eshell for the first time. If you try to C-$ on a freshly started Emacs session, you'll get a
Symbol's value as variable is void: eshell-buffer-name
message. In order to fix this, the code must check whether eshell-buffer-name is bound and, if it's not, we start the buffer giving it a 1.
(global-set-key (kbd "C-$") '(lambda () (interactive) (let ((i 1)) (if (boundp 'eshell-buffer-name) (progn (while (member (concat eshell-buffer-name "<" (int-to-string i) ">") (mapcar* 'buffer-name (buffer-list))) (setq i (+ 1 i))) (eshell i)) (eshell 1)))) )
OK. Now I am satisfied.
Edit: And now, I feel stupid
A friend of mine, very politely, possibly to avoid embarrassing me in public, sent me an e-mail pointing out he didn't quite understood what I was trying to accomplish here. In his message, he pointed out I could just invoke (eshell t). When passed "t" (boolean true in Lisp) as a parameter, eshell does precisely what I wanted it to do. So, the new version in my init.el is even shorter:
(global-set-key (kbd "C-$") '(lambda () (interactive) (eshell t)))
Well... At least I learned something.
Fazendo um pouco melhor (ainda a provinha do GDD)
Ainda não desisti de resolver a prova do GDD em Erlang. Não. Não preciso resolver em Erlang, mas, com tanta gente usando Java, PHP e até PL/SQL pra resolvê-la (e com um amigo que usou Haskell), eu fiquei com vontade.
Também posso repetir uma do ano passado e fazê-la em Lisp.
Então. Erlang é avessa a loops. Loops fazem coisas mudarem de estado e linguagens funcionais não gostam que coisas mudem de estado. O dialeto de Lisp que eu usei ano passado também, mas faz uma concessão e me deixa fazê-los.
O comparador
Assim, a nossa primeira função com loop da prova, cmp_goog, que é assim:
def cmp_googlon(p1, p2): v = 'jgptzmqskbclrhdfnvwx' for l1, l2 in zip(p1, p2): if v.index(l1) != v.index(l2): return v.index(l1) - v.index(l2) return len(p1) - len(p2)
Ficaria assim:
def cmp_googlon(p1, p2): v = 'jgptzmqskbclrhdfnvwx' if p1 == p2: return 0 elif len(p1) == 0 or len(p2) == 0: return len(p1) - len(p2) elif p1[0] == p2[0]: return cmp_googlon(p1[1:], p2[1:]) else: return v.index(p1[0]) - v.index(p2[0])
Note que, em vez de comparar as strings em um loop, eu comparo só seus primeiros elementos e, se os dois forem iguais, eu chamo o comparador de novo, agora com as strings sem a primeira posição.
Bases numéricas
A outra função serve para nos dar o valor em base 10 de um número em googlon. O original é um clássico, em que você percorre os dígitos do número e vai totalizando os valores de cada casa:
def valor_numerico(p): v = 'jgptzmqskbclrhdfnvwx' vn = 0 i = 0 for c in p: vn += v.index(c) * (20 ** i) i += 1 return vn
A idéia é que o valor de um número é o valor do seu dígito menos significativo somado ao produto da base multiplicada pelo valor do resto. No caso de números em base 10, 123 é dado pela soma de 3 com o produto de 10 e 12, sendo que 12 é dado por 2 somado a 10 vezes 1. Transcrito em Python, a nova versão é bem mais concisa:
def valor_numerico_f(p): v = 'jgptzmqskbclrhdfnvwx' if len(p) == 1: return v.index(p) else: return v.index(p[0]) + 20 * valor_numerico_f(p[1:])
Agora eu preciso de algumas horas para escrever a versão em Erlang. Desejem-me sorte.
