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I’ve just discovered Factor, a new programming language. It is a stack-based language like Forth and Postscript. Factor works on many different platforms.
I’m currently looking at it as one of the possible programming languages I’ll cover in my Programming Languages module at the University of Mauritius. Simple stack-based languages are interesting because they are low-level [...]

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Some of you have perhaps noticed (and maybe used) the links and the RSS icons I have at the top of this page. Until yesterday, clicking on “My bookmarks” brought you to my del.icio.us page as I use del.icio.us systematically to bookmark interesting web pages as soon as I come across them.
I also use Google [...]

Someone said that Linux was progressing only through sheer luck… And this make Linus Torvalds react:
And don’t EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than
what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That’s giving your intelligence much too much credit.
Linus was referring to the open source development model [...]

Amateur and Professional in programming, this might interest you.
i wanted to post this since a few days back, but i am so overloaded with work i dont get time even to check my facebook at work!
ya, these days, i am following a training for “WebDev”.
Its a software package for building web sites or web applications, [...]

I came across an interesting article called Should Java be banned from schools?.
The most interesting part were the comments. One of them rang a bell:
Also, no CS study is complete without some messing with machine level instructions, compilers & interpreters, algorithms, etc. Forget about learning a language: a good CS student must be able to [...]

In fact it’s a simple app written in PHP5 using the screen scraping technique ;-). Basically the script fetches the headlines from the local newspaper “Lexpress.mu” and displays them in your profile.
Add lexpress-mru app to your facebook profile. 
Download the php script here (requires php5).

Problem :
You want to display a particular post everyday but only during a time of the day, very useful when you’ve got a schedule you want to display.
Solution :
Post your entry but make the entry date a fixed one. For example, the post has entry date 2007-01-01 but with the time you want the post [...]

I’am proud to annouce you the release of canalBox 0.1 alpha.
It’s a XBMC script written in Python which allows you to get tv programme details from the CanalSat Reunion website. May still contain some bugs and I’am still working on it, and some tweaking also, to improve performance. Works on XBMC >= 2.0.
Download it here
Below [...]