| Cartesian Tree-Product |
posted on May 02, 2013 |
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I have to admit that my day-to-day life involves very little algorithmic problems, but here and there I get a chance to think. In this post, I'd like to discuss...
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| A Survey of Construct 3 |
posted on January 07, 2013 |
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I'm working on Construct 3 again and I'm exploring lots of new ideas. I wanted to share these ideas at this early stage to get feedback on them from users,...
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| New Experiences |
posted on December 15, 2012 |
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Okay, I've been slacking off and I feel I've got some explaining to do... Allow me to start by admitting that I lied. If you remember, I said I wanted...
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| Loads of Plumbum |
posted on October 26, 2012 |
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It's kind of funny how things turn out. I haven't done any work on Plumbum almost since it was released, back in May, and all of the sudden everything's happening...
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| Plumbum Hits v1.0 |
posted on October 06, 2012 |
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After 5 months in the oven, I've finally released Plumbum v1.0, which brings forth a host of bug-fixes, improvements and new features. If you're new to Plumbum, please refer to...
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| Hypertext: In-Python Haml |
posted on October 03, 2012 |
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TL;DR: Just show me the code I recently got back to web development for some venture I'm working on, which reminded me just how lousy the state of the art...
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| I, for one, welcome our Singularity overlord |
posted on September 22, 2012 |
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I'm finding myself pondering quite a lot lately over the upcoming Singularity (in its Kurzweilesque sense). I think I've first heard of the concept two or three years ago, at...
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| New Beginnings |
posted on September 01, 2012 |
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This is a time of change in my life. September marks the last month of me being a student at Tel Aviv University, a position I've greatly enjoyed (and hated)...
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| Splitbrain Python |
posted on August 14, 2012 |
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I was working together with a colleague on a complex distributed test-automation solution on top of RPyC, and we looked for a way to make our existing codebase RPyC-friendly (without...
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| ReHelloWorld |
posted on August 06, 2012 |
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Tada! The new design is here. The previous one was based on some Drupal theme I once used (before moving to github pages) that I tried to mimic when I...
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| Javaism, Exceptions, and Logging: Part 2 |
posted on July 09, 2012 |
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Considering the reactions to the previous post in this series, my intent was obviously misunderstood. Please allow me to clarify that I was not attacking Java or Python: Java is...
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| Javaism, Exceptions, and Logging: Part 1 |
posted on July 03, 2012 |
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I'm working nowadays on refactoring a large Python codebase at my workplace, and I wanted to share some of my insights over two some aspects of large-scale projects: exceptions, logging,...
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| RPCs, Life and All |
posted on June 25, 2012 |
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A colleague of mine, Gavrie Philipson, has written an interesting blog post titled Why I Don't Like RPC, in which he explains that transparent/seamless RPCs (a la RPyC) make debugging...
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| Reed-Solomon Codec |
posted on June 08, 2012 |
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Some Background I'm working on an image processing project for the university, whose purpose is to embed (an extract) a print-scan resilient watermark into an image. This project has (sadly)...
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| Some Notes on RPyC 3.2.x |
posted on June 06, 2012 |
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As I said in the previous blog post, I hoped for v3.2.2 to be the last release of the 3.2 line... Naturally, I was wrong :) Turns out the fix...
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| RPyC 3.2.2 Released |
posted on June 01, 2012 |
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This is a maintenance release, fixing some issues concerning introspection, ForkingServer and signals, IronPython and signals, and SSH on Windows. It also introduces optional logging of exceptions that occur over...
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| The Future of Construct |
posted on May 16, 2012 |
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It's been a long while since I've put time into Construct. I gave up on it somewhere in 2007, right after the release of v2.0... I think I just got...
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| Introducing Plumbum - Shell Combinators |
posted on May 12, 2012 |
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It's been a while since I last blogged... sorry! Had a midterm exam, a seminar project to deliver (an O(n^3) parser for Tree Insertion Grammar), the routine family festivities of...
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| Solving Systems of Linear Equations |
posted on March 25, 2012 |
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Yet another university-related post, but I really enjoyed it so I thought I'd share: for a GUI- workshop I'm taking, we are given GUI-layout constraints as a system of linear...
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| Easy Syntax for Representing Trees |
posted on March 07, 2012 |
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I'm working on a parser for Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) for this seminar I'm taking. TAG is an extension of context-free grammar (CFG) that's more powerful while still being polynomially-parsable....
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| RPyC 3.2.1 Released |
posted on March 04, 2012 |
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This is a maintenance release, fixing some minor bugs and resolving some issues with Python 3 compatibility. More on the change log. Python 2.x: it's advisable to upgrade to this...
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| Toying with Context Managers |
posted on February 27, 2012 |
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As I promised in the code-generation using context managers post, I wanted to review some more, rather surprising, examples where context managers prove handy. So we all know we can...
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| Wizard Dialog Toolkit |
posted on February 11, 2012 |
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Following my Deducible UI post, and following some of the criticism it had received, I'd like to share something I've been working on (read: experimenting with) at my work place....
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| Just Got Me These |
posted on February 09, 2012 |
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Hurrah! I just got me these: After the CS secretariat refused to let take math courses as electives (thus forcing me into taking boring stuff like SQL), I think Dover...
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| Code Generation using Context Managers |
posted on January 31, 2012 |
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When I was working on Agnos, a cross-language RPC framework, I had a lot of code-generation to do in a variety of languages (Python, Java, C#, and C++). At the...
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| Deducible UI |
posted on January 27, 2012 |
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A Brief History I like automating things. I don't like having to reiterate myself: my dream is to always be able to add only the necessary amount of information in...
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| Regarding Infix Operators |
posted on January 25, 2012 |
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I got some reactions to the Infix Operators post, and wanted to point out some things. First of all, I'm not the one who came up with it -- it's...
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| All Systems are Go |
posted on January 23, 2012 |
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At last, I finished migrating the old drupal site to github pages. Everything is now fully revisioned and statically-generated (using Disqus for comments). Jekyll is so cool! I wrote all...
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| Infix Operators in Python |
posted on January 22, 2012 |
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As you may already know, there are 3 kinds of operators calling-notations: prefix (+ 3 5), infix (3 + 5), and postfix (3 5 +). Prefix (as well as postfix)...
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| RPyC Moves to a New Site |
posted on August 29, 2011 |
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RPyC is in the process of migrating from http://rpyc.wikidot.com to it's new (and hopefully final) location at http://rpyc.sourceforge.net. Wikidot had served us well, and was easy to maintain, but they...
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| Learning Me a Haskell |
posted on August 17, 2011 |
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Phew! Finally the semester's over (just submitted my last project), and it's time to clean up my ever-so-long backlog. Here goes nothing: I'll start by posting something here, after this...
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| Hooking Imports for Fun and Profit |
posted on June 17, 2011 |
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I really love Python... it's so hackable that it just calls for hacking, inspiring your imagination to find ways to stretch its boundaries. This time I decided to investigate into...
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| Python is Messy |
posted on May 07, 2011 |
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A couple of days ago, Rudiger, a user of RPyC found a rather surprising bug, that in turn revealed just how gruesome python's inner workings are. Rudiger was working with...
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