The Meditative Coder

As I've mentioned, I am the proud father of a C.H.I.P. single-board computer.  I've been playing with it for a while, and have also ...

Pop quiz time! When you use snprintf() instead of sprintf() , are you:    A. Writing code that proactively detects bugs.    B. Writing ...

Many people despair at today's "throw away" society.  If you don't want it, just throw it away. Programmers know this is...

So, let's say you're sending data on a TCP socket faster than the receiver can unload it. The socket buffers fill up. Then what ha...

Ever since I was *very* young, I've been interested in science and technology.  At some point in my teens, maybe 40 years ago, I wanted ...

UPDATE: C.H.I.P. is dead Or rather, the company is dead.  I will keep my CHIP content laying around, but I won't be doing much with it...

We just discovered that under a somewhat unlikely set of circumstances, Microsoft's Windows 7 (SP 1) will corrupt outgoing UDP datagram...

Ok, these things are not the end of the world.  During a code inspection, I might not even bring them up.  Or maybe I would - it would depen...

Remember RS-232?  It is rare now-a-days to find a need for RS-232, but it can come up.  In my case, a couple of machines in our lab have the...

In my distant past, I dabbled in a bit of Unix system administration.  (How distantly in the past?  SunOS 4.2.  Yeah, I'm old.) This y...

I'm a little embarrassed to admit that in my entire 35-year career, I've never really learned anything about international character...

I've been a C programmer for some 20 years now, and I learned something new about the language just a few days ago. A less-experienced...

I discovered the convenience of rapid cycle testing in Clojure with "midje" and liked it.  I then re-created it while learning so...