Archive for the ‘software’ Category

Generating source code with Ruby templates

Monday, September 17th, 2007 Posted in software | No Comments »

Imagine that you have to write function calls in C for 20 analog inputs and 20 driver outputs for your embedded control unit. Then there is another control unit with a similar - but not identical - configuration, but with ...

Is C programming on the point of extinction?

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 Posted in embedded, software | No Comments »

According to Computer World knowledge in C programming is less relevant as "the Web takes over" and C programmers are likely to be unemployed soon. Ehh, my main knowledge is C-programming, I have minor skills in C++ and know close to ...

InstantPhp

Saturday, September 1st, 2007 Posted in software | No Comments »

As InstantRails runs both Apache and MySql, and have setup php for the phpMyAdmin interface, it is a very easy way to test run php-projects. E.g. to test WordPress or Serendipity only download and unpack in the www-directory. Then you ...

Faster than RubyOnRails

Saturday, September 1st, 2007 Posted in software | 2 Comments »

After watching the now famous video by the creator of RubyOnRails, David Heinemeier Hansson, I started using Ruby. Since then Ruby has become as my prefered scripting language because of its intutive sematics (but still use Python a lot). RubyOnRails is ...