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Running SublimeText 2 from Terminal on Mac OSX

admin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:00:29 +0000

Invoke the following command:

$ sudo ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/bin/subl
Now, you can use something like:

$ subl .
to open up current folder with SublimeText

CoreWLANWirelessManager Porting Completed

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:30:04 +0000

Yay!
After working my ass off for two days, I finally finished porting CoreWLANWirelessManager sample from Apple’s Official Reference Library (http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#samplecode/CoreWLANWirelessManager/History/History.html) to MonoMac. This was my first time working with Cocoa+MonoMac, and the experience wasn’t that bad. As I was trying to mimic the behavior, naming convention, and style of the official sample, it took me more time than expected. Nevertheless, the coding was a breeze – only couple of times I got stuck. During this time, I was also able to find a bug in MonoMac related to some threading issue (my guess).
Anyways, it feels super awesome to finish a Mac Application in a language that I love (C#) and then distribute the source code for the open source lovers to play, and learn from it. The source code is hosted on github: https://github.com/ashokgelal/CoreWLANWirelessManager

Get your namespace right at first place

admin — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 07:59:32 +0000

Esp. if you are working with MonoDevelop+Gtk#. Believe me it is more painful than getting your balls pinched by someone. I never had this experience (getting the balls pinched) but yes couple of times I’ve been hit with cricket balls, (…)

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First Python Script: Header Appender

admin — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:52:41 +0000

I started learning Python just yesterday and I’m not only making some good progress but also just finished writing my first ever Python script that processes a bunch of *.cs files and appends a header to each files (basically a copyright notice, and a license – Apache 2.0 License in this case).

So, this turned out to be pretty good and pretty productive. I needed a similar kind of script for processing my C# files that I’ve written for my NetFilterFramework. This framework basically allows you to filter a list based on some binary expressions criteria. You just have to create a string expression such off a public property of a class e.g. Name property of a Student class.

Writing this first ever Python Script was fun. I starting was very rough and edgy. I used IDLE at first to see how it goes and then ran a number of tests on some dummy files to see the results. All went fine with some minor problems. The big stumbling block was command line parsing. Although Python’s inbuilt command line parsing (using OptParse) is super awesome, the manual on their site was not that help and too verbose. So, I needed to take the help of some external sites. So was for recursively traversing a folder to read all the files. Following sites turned out to be very helpful while writing this script:

http://www.alexonlinux.com/pythons-optparse-for-human-beings

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/499305/

http://stefaanlippens.net/getcwd

And of course stackoverflow.com is always there. Thanks to heavens for this internet thing.

Here is the my first ever Python Script in its entirety:

The Greatest Excuse!

admin — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:08:24 +0000