Comments for Ryan's Tech Blog

Comment on Migrate PuTTY saved sessions by andy

andy — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:05:26 +0000

dankz!

Comment on Ease Parsing enums in C# using generics by ryan

ryan — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:45:12 +0000

@Rob Volk: I bet wordpress is eating the angle brackets

Comment on Ease Parsing enums in C# using generics by Rob Volk

Rob Volk — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:30:56 +0000

BTW – you forgot the generic declaration on the method signature. Should be:

public static T ParseToEnum(this string name)

Comment on Ease Parsing enums in C# using generics by Rob Volk

Rob Volk — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:20:26 +0000

The extension method is what I was looking for. Works great. I love open source development via blog comments! thanks guys.

Comment on more heat-maps using vecto and ch-image by D Herring

D Herring — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:14:42 +0000

Historical note: Installing ch-image on a new box was one of the motivations behind LibCL.

FWIW, the ch-asdf, smarkup, and cl-bibtex packages are only needed to generate the ch-image documentation. Users of clisp will want to use the git versions instead of these release tarballs (fixes committed 2008-12-03). However, I don’t think any of the other improvements would fix that interpolation bug.

Comment on reading passwords from the console in C# by Casey Morton

Casey Morton — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:28:16 +0000

For anyone interested, here is my improved code:

public static string MaskedReadLine()
{
Queue passbits = new Queue();

for (ConsoleKeyInfo cki = Console.ReadKey(true); cki.Key != ConsoleKey.Enter; cki = Console.ReadKey(true))
{
if (cki.Key == ConsoleKey.Backspace)
{
if (passbits.Count > 0)
{
Console.SetCursorPosition(Console.CursorLeft – 1, Console.CursorTop);
Console.Write(” “);
Console.SetCursorPosition(Console.CursorLeft – 1, Console.CursorTop);
passbits.Dequeue();
}
}
else
{
Console.Write(“*”);
passbits.Enqueue(cki.KeyChar.ToString());
}
}
Console.WriteLine();
string[] pass = passbits.ToArray();
return string.Join(string.Empty, pass);
}

Comment on reading passwords from the console in C# by Casey Morton

Casey Morton — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:26:04 +0000

Thanks for the code snippet. I made a couple of improvements on it though. First it would be more efficient to use a queue to store the characters. That way you save a reverse call at the end. Also, on the code posted by matt, it would be better to check the size of the stack/queue than check the position of the cursor. Checking the position of the cursor constrains you to only using this when the cursor is at the beginning of a new line. If you check the size of the stack/queue you can use it to do same-line prompts as well.

Comment on Migrate PuTTY saved sessions by Charles

Charles — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:06:12 +0000

So easy. Thanks for saving me an hour of typing

Comment on git-like line counts in svn using bash by Random Links #117 | YASDW - yet another software developer weblog

Random Links #117 | YASDW - yet another software developer weblog — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:07:03 +0000

[...] git-like line counts in svn using bash Nice subversion script [...]

Comment on git-like line counts in svn using bash by Daniel Westermann-Clark

Daniel Westermann-Clark — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:09:16 +0000

There’s a program called diffstat that takes a diff and outputs a histogram like git:

http://invisible-island.net/diffstat/

If I remember to use it, it’s usually something like:

svn diff -c 265 | diffstat