Until not too long ago I had kept my CV in DocBook, then I converted it to XMLRésumé (but the project really looks dead nowadays), now I am converting it to HR-XML/Resume. Yes, I know, its project admin just recently declared this SourceForge project as inactive. But then, what alternatives are there? Of course, I… Continue reading my CV or Resume in XML
Month: March 2010
perl’s pattern matching enhanced by “named capture buffers”
python has long had it: symbolic groups. They allow you to refer to a substring matched by a symbolic group name: “(?P<id>)”, id in this case. Now perl has drawn equal: “(?<id>)” does the same job, and the feature is called named capture buffers. Read it up in the perlre manual page or online here!… Continue reading perl’s pattern matching enhanced by “named capture buffers”
Eclipse Pydev: refactoring
What Pydev (will be inserted a little later, promised) calls Refactoring is quite a nice toy, but not too reliable. I tried “Rename…“, and it does not rename keyword parameter usages. I tried to use “Inline Local…” on an attribute getter, and it simply fell on its nose shouting “Could not translate editor coordinates into… Continue reading Eclipse Pydev: refactoring
IIWDFI = “if it works, don’t fix it!”
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/If+It+Works+Don%27t+Fix+It My mate at work pointed me to a techie article with this core phrase: “if it works, don’t fix it!” aka IIWDFI.