Month: February 2013
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GNU Emacs: how to activate time stamps?
Time Stamps – GNU Emacs Manual My recipe: (add-hook ‘write-file-hooks ‘time-stamp) I actually think, I already bookmarked this recipe on my blog a while ago, but I cannot find it.
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nice table: what the British say – what the British mean – what others understand
Blog: Translating English… Well, it always helps to properly understand English. Don’t put the blame on the native speakers but on your own language deficiencies!
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O’Reilly Media book: Agile Data Science
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025054.do With this hands-on book, you’ll learn a flexible toolset and methodology for building effective analytics applications. Agile Data shows you how to create an environment for exploring data, using lightweight tools such as Ruby, Python, Apache Pig, and the D3.js (Data-Driven Documents) JavaScript library. You’ll learn an iterative approach that allows you to quickly…
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my customer still uses CVS, I would love to own the PragProg book on CVS
Pragmatic Forums | my customer still uses CVS, I would love to own the PDF Within a couple of days I got it as a gift from Andy Hunt. I am so glad.
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O’Reilly Media book: Learning from jQuery
Learning from jQuery: If you’re comfortable with jQuery but a bit shaky with JavaScript, this concise guide will help you expand your knowledge of the language—especially the code that jQuery covers up for you. Many jQuery devotees write as little code as possible, but with some JavaScript under your belt, you can prevent errors, reduce…
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O’Reilly Media book: Python Cookbook – Recipes for Mastering Python 3
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920027072.do Completely updated, the third edition of this popular cookbook offers a collection of recipes to help readers solve a variety of common problems they face when programming with Python. With a focus on Python 3, some recipe coverage includes data structures and algorithms, strings and text, metaprogramming, and testing.
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O’Reilly Media book: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition – O’Reilly Media Does not cover (Korn Shell) “extended globbing” AKA “file name generation”; in bash activated through: “$ shopt extglob on”.
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O’Reilly Media book: bash Pocket Reference
bash Pocket Reference: You need to know how to work with the bash shell if you want to get to the heart of Unix systems, including Linux and Mac OS X. Now covering the most recent version of bash, this concise little book puts all of the essential information about bash at your fingertips. You’ll…