Swift to C++

By Matt Fahrner, on February 10th, 2015%

So having just watched a great webcast from O’Reilly on Swift (and certainly having plenty more to learn):

Protocols == Pure Virtuals Generics == Templates Extensions == Class Derivation/Extension/Overloading on steroids Operator Overloading == Operator Overloading, again on steroids. Closures == well, nothing innate, but pretty much same thing as Python Closures

Curiously, and I . . . → Read More: Swift to C++

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Python – some truth in this…

By Matt Fahrner, on May 26th, 2014%

I have to say even as a relative newcomer to Python, I find a fair bit of truth in this:

https://medium.com/@deliciousrobots/5d2ad703365d/

Working in a non-homogenous (that is, heterogeneous OS) environment where Python 2.x vs. Python 3.x is not guaranteed, the lack of backwards (or forwards) compatibility is problematic. If nothing else it erodes . . . → Read More: Python – some truth in this…

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Using LDAP Paged Controls with Python

By Matt Fahrner, on March 9th, 2014%

Most LDAP servers can be set to return an unlimited number of entries on an LDAP search, however depending on the size of the LDAP database/directory this can possibly exceed your memory. Moreover if you want to write portable code, you probably should not depend on the LDAP server being able to return unlimited entries. . . . → Read More: Using LDAP Paged Controls with Python

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Bash TCP programming hack!?

By Matt Fahrner, on August 7th, 2009%

I had never heard of this until I ran into working on a recent project. In “bash” you can open sockets:

exec file-descriptor<>/dev/tcp/IP-or-hostname-here/port

so for example:

exec 3<>/dev/tcp/192.168.1.100/23

would open port 23 (telnet) to IP “192.168.1.100” for read and write (the “<>”) on file descriptor “3” (remember descriptors 0, 1, and . . . → Read More: Bash TCP programming hack!?

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