Open-Source and related Stuff
In order to be able to support more platforms in the future, I refactored my rsync4j library today, turning it from a monolithic library into separate modules: rsync4j-core – the core Java classes that wrap around the rsync binaries, all…
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A few weeks ago, I came across the mXparser library, which allows you not only to parse and evaluate mathematical expressions, but also to define your own functions. Today, I had a bit of time and I quickly put together…
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I’ve just made new releases available of my python-weka-wrapper and python-weka-wrapper3 libraries, that incorporate Weka 3.9.2 now. Underneath the hood, pww now uses Weka’s isolating class loading mechanism instead of just generating a classpath from the jars of the packages….
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Came across the following answer on askubuntu, explaining how to get Python 3.6 on Ubuntu 16.04: https://askubuntu.com/questions/865554/how-do-i-install-python-3-6-using-apt-get#865569 Which involves basically these steps: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python3.6 However, for compiling packages through pip, you also…
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Linux always made it very easy to install background process (aka daemons), be it using sysv init or systemd. Windows on the other hand, always made it relatively hard installing services, IMHO. Enter NSSM, the Non-Sucking Service Manager. A little…
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Just reposting a link to Donald Stufft’s excellent post on setup.py vs requirements.txt, in order to have a reference for myself. 😉 https://caremad.io/posts/2013/07/setup-vs-requirement/
For many years, I’ve been using JAD decompiler for decompiling Java class files (integrates nicely in vim). However, this decompiler hasn’t been actively maintained for a long time and doesn’t handle features introduced with Java 5 and beyond. Today, I…
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Over the last few days, I’ve implemented a basic scripting framework in my weka-virtualenv tool. All previous command-line commands are available, plus special scripting commands. Scripting is done either through the script command or through a special tab in the…
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