Sun 29 October 2017 - gnuguileautotools
Lisp, specifically Scheme, has captivated me for about three years
now. My Scheme implementation of choice is GNU Guile because
it is the official extension language of the GNU project. One issue I
faced early with when trying to develop for Guile was how to set up
and organize my project. There doesn't seem to be a single
recommended way to set up a Guile project but several projects do
follow a similar project structure I will describe below. You can find
a git repository with the example project here.
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Wed 11 November 2015 - algorithmsinsertion sortsorting
I will be writing a series of blog posts about various algorithms. The purpose of these posts
will be to help me further my understanding and ability to explain algorithms. Each post
will cover an algorithm, provide an implementation in a programming language, explain the
algorithm using the implementation, and finally discuss any possible other discoveries I find when
researching the algorithm.
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Wed 31 December 2014 - JavaScriptCinnamondesklettutorial
This is the first of hopefully several tutorials on developing desklets for
the Cinnamon desktop environment. In this tutorial, I will cover the basics
of creating a desklet and do my best to link or refer to additional
resources where you might find more information on
the topics. Cinnamon
is a linux desktop environment forked from Gnome Shell by
Linux Mint. A desklet is a small application which
appears on the Cinnamon desktop, Cinnamon ships with three desklets and more
can be found here. Desklets
are written in JavaScript and uses CJS which is based on Gjs.
Gjs are JavaScript bindings
for GNOME and is based on Mozilla's JavaScript engine
Spidermonkey.
My reason for creating this tutorial came about when I was creating a desklet
for Cinnamon. There were barely any guides or tutorials on creating a desklet
and finding documentation on the libraries available in CJS was difficult. The
only advice I saw was to read other people's source code and learn from that,
while it is a great way to learn, it does not provide enough information. So
I would like to share what I have learned and where I found it.
Our first desklet will be a simple "Hello, World!" program, a simple program
which displays the text "Hello, World!" on the desktop using GNOME Shell's
Clutter-based toolkit called
St (Shell Toolkit). The St library
provides an easy way to create simple user interfaces.
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