Bash allows users to do very advanced things when defining shell prompt, including colours and propagation of information into xterm title. …

Recently I had to write a Python script which needed to parse large gzip-ed CSV files. First I reached for the standard

csv …

Cmake is a great build tool. It takes care of generating build system files, targeting, among others, Unix makefile, MS Visual Studio, ninja, XCode …

I have recently upgraded my Amazon cloud t2.micro instance from Ubuntu 15.04 to 15.10. And soon I noticed a very strange high load on the machine - …

For quite some time I wanted to have a Drupal theme that would allow me to have a bootstrap based theme together with the look and feel as dictated by …

Developers often have to look at log files. This is sometimes boring, sometimes tedious, but it’s a fact of life. It would really help if some …

Scrapy is a nice python environment for web scraping, i.e. extracting information from web sites automatically by crawling them. It works best with …

After doing some web development work recently, I have clearly remembered why I hate JavaScript so much. Not only is it ugly as a language, lacking in …

.NET’s MemoryStream is a very convenient class. It allows you to use a byte[] array as storage, while accessing it via standard Stream API. …

Not an uncommon task in multithreaded programming - what if you want to terminate a background thread, which is blocked at the moment, and then to …