Nicolas Lehuen's Weblog

pytst 1.18

Nicolas Lehuen — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:21:36 +0000

I’ve just released pytst 1.18 which fixes a bug reported by Keith Davidson. The bug was in the scan method and appeared in some very specific yet totally mundane circumstances : if you scanned an input string of a very specific length with regard to the content of the tree, then the first scan would [...]

A case against Twitter

Nico — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:06:00 +0000

OK, I’ve put up with enough BS about Twitter. It’s been months that this thing is growing on me, usually I can vent this off, but this time I can’t ; a tiny thread was the last straw for me. Short version of this post : Twitter basically provides a crappy infrastructure for broadcasting short messages on the [...]

FriendFeed might actually benefit from Google Wave

Nico — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:38:00 +0000

With the current buzz about Google Wave, it is difficult not to feel sorry for FriendFeed. The common ground between Wave and FriendFeed is indeed pretty rich : real time communication, threaded conversations, lightweight social networking… Some people even suggest that there is some irony in seeing Google rip off good ideas from FriendFeed, the [...]

The difference between pytst and ctst

Nico — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:30:00 +0000

Putting away the difference in languages (C++ for pytst, pure C for ctst), the two projects are quite different with regards to the way data is stored in the tree. pytst implements a text-book ternary search tree with an AVL balancing algorithm. While I was working on this project, I designed a scanning algorithm that I [...]

Mapping my personal web

Nico — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:55:00 +0000

Everything starts with a slice of the Web, in the guise of a bunch of RSS feeds. Currently my blog roll hover a little above 280 feeds. There are the broad blockbusters like Techcrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Techmeme, Presse-Citron (a French blog), the mainstream media (e.g. French newspapers), but there are also a lot of small, [...]

pytst 1.17

Nico — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:13:00 +0000

pytst 1.17 is out ! The source code can be fetched using git. If you prefer tarballs, head to the downloads page, where you’ll also find Win32 binaries. Included in this release : Support for 64 bits architectures (tested under Linux only) – thanks to Thomas Brox Røst for the patch. The test script (in python/test/test.py) is now self-contained, [...]

pytst now hosted on github

Nico — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:24:00 +0000

I’ve created an account on github and ported my private SVN repository to a public git repository. Now you can fork on the project as you want and eventually ask me to pull your modifications (using the « send pull request » functionality). The wiki will be a good place to document the library. Hopefully this is the [...]

pytst 1.16

Nico — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:26:00 +0000

I’ve just released pytst 1.16, you can download it there. This release fixes an annoying bug that occurs if you used CallableAction or CallableFilter. If your Python callback functions raised a Python exception, the whole process crashed. This meant that you had to catch all Python exceptions in the callback, which was not always handy. The [...]

pytst 1.15

Nico — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:37:00 +0000

I’ve just released pytst 1.15, you can download it there. This release fixes a quite important problem introduced on 2006/05/05… For a reason I don’t quite remember now, I decided to make the TST C++ template specialization dedicated to the Python bindings privately inherit from the more generic tst<...> template. I guess this was related to [...]

A tribute to Groovy

Nico — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:31:00 +0000

My life as a developer : Update : it’s my life as a professional developer, since my life as a programmer began in 1983 on a Sinclair ZX81… 1995 : Java 1.0 beta is released. I begin playing with it. Hotjava browser, applets are all the rage. Soon after, the infamous « Loading Java » status bar message in [...]