Thoughts on this, that and the rest
Thoughts on this, that and the rest
Ever since NATO invaded Afghanistan under the guise of fighting terrorism, the poverty-stricken country has served as an election-winning tool for leaders of the involved countries. Every time election gets closer, the leaders of these countries make an announcement that…
I am a big fan of beautiful code, not only in terms of quality of programming but also formatting the code nicely so that it is easy on eyes. If you are using a full-blown IDE, they come with their…
I was working on a data-matching project. One organisation sending data to match against another. Standard stuff: plain text, fields separated by a delimiter (tab, in this case). I reached for Perl’s split function to break each line into an…
Updated to improve clarity and add context. If you’ve ever had to deal with PCL (Printer Command Language), you’ll know the pain: there’s no command to center text. Some printers support HPGL commands embedded in a PCL file, but not…
