Bitwise Evolution

There are many small apps that I wish I had, here’s a short list of the ones that come to mind at the moment:

A process monitor that shows the top consumer.

I often tack my system(s) to the max, and therefore run out of cycles frequently. While this is sometimes the result of batch computations […]

MT + Emacs + Markdown & Geshi?

Is it possible? We’re here to find out :) I just got around to installing ml.el in emacs, and this post is essentially a test to see if markdown syntax will work (and round-trip to Movable Type and back to emacs — it seems to come from mt correctly…).

Source code:

transcode-language: java public class […]

The mono project, which aims to provide an OSS alternative to the .Net framework, is capable of serving ASP.Net pages (amongst other things). On Friday I sat down to do this, and realized that while there are many pages that describe the process, none that I could find, covered all the info needed to […]

I’ve moved Bitwise Evolution to yet another blog — this time I’ve moved from WordPress to MovableType. The motivating factor was that WordPress made it extremely difficult to post correctly formatted code along with other content. WordPress also doesn’t store a non-html version of each post, so you can’t easily edit […]

Generics are great for adding some level of type safety to C#, but you may run into problems when using Generic classes with objects that aren’t of the exact Class or Interface indicated by the generic type template. Enter Generic Constraints.

Generic Constraints let you restrict the number of types a type variable can apply […]

…empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one’s personal attainments or decorations; [1913 Webster]

I’m a sucker for pretty desktops and window managers. This weakness has yet to make me succumb to the lure of a full Gnome (or KDE) desktop, however. (Although I did play with the hack kludge known as XGL/compiz […]

As is the case with many geek-endeavors, the things I’m currently working on have nothing to do with the goal I set out to achieve. At the moment I’m trying to find a way to convert xhtml into muse markup.

Why? Because your average Java programmer Just Doesn’t Get It when it comes to building […]

I’ve wanted to use emacs as a blogging tool for a long time, but I’ve always run into issues. Today I ran across a blog post that describes an approach that works:

http://ektich.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/how-to-blog-from-emacs/

In addition to the instructions there, I had to pull down:

elib (with apt) xml.el (from: http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/skyserver/xml.el)

Ping me with questions — more details soon to come as […]

The .NET collections continually frustrate me with the obvious ommisions, even in .NET 2.0. Coming from a Java / Lisp background, I really expect two things out of a data structures API:

Lots of collections to choose from.
and; Easy manipulation of the structures you have available.

.NET doesn’t […]

I finally found a way to quickly navigate to my home directory in windows today. Being a long-time (well, 8-10 years) Linux user, when I started working in windows 40 hours a week, I had to adapt a bit, but most of that adaptation meant installing cygwin utilities, bblean, and emacs. Unfortunately, it’s […]