“Brilliant people simplify things, and mediocre people complicate things.” — Unknone

Mapping Wikipedia

I was reading reddit the other day and stumbled upon the fact that wikipedia has an API. Neat I thought, and having some free time since my exams are now over I figured I would play around a bit with it. When I browse wikipedia I often click from link to link, and have come [...]

My top 10 commands 2.0

I know that this has been done before but it seems to go around every once in a while and I always have fun reading them. So once again here are my top 10 commands.
My Computer
[sourcecode language="python"]earobinson@MinusOne:~$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
143 cd
114 ls
53 make
48 svn
34 svnup
18 sh
12 cat
11 [...]

cmake

I’m currently working on a cross platform project. The code is C++ and I’m going to be doing most of my development on the linux side but I need all of my compile scripts to be able to work on windows. After doing some googling and talking to people cmake seems to be what I’m [...]