How to Install Anything in Ubuntu Condensed
This is a very condensed excerpt of the excellent article How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu.
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RFind - Quickly Find Files
RFind is a little application that indexes the filenames of a given directory, and allows to quickly search this index with regular expressions. [Read More] -
TextAnalyzer in Python
I have just found out that somebody has translated my textanalyzer from Ruby into Python. It also contains some improvements like stopwords. The core algorithm is still the same. Get it at kelpheavyweaponry.com. -
e — New Release of Extract Any Archive
Extract Any Archive just got better: When you extract multiple archives at once, e.g. with [Read More] -
Exponential Functions: Benchmarks, 8 Times Faster Math.pow()
I have updated the code for the Math.pow() approximation, now it is 11 times faster on my Pentium IV. Read Optimized Exponential Functions for Java for more information. Now I can also give you some benchmarks: [Read More] -
Optimized Exponential Functions for Java
Usually microoptimization is only done in C or C++, but it works quite well in Java too. For a project I needed very fast log() and exp() calculations, and Java’s Math.log() and Math.exp() just doesn’t cut it. After a bit of research I have found the following approximations that are good enough for me: [Read More] -
Open Source Search Engine
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TextAnalyzer - Automatically Extract Characteristic Words
TextAnalzyer is a text analyzer tool that finds out words that are characteristic for a given input file. It is independent from any language, and even seems to work well with HTML files. [Read More] -
Three Laws of Software Development
seecretGeek has a nice blog entry about the three laws of Software Development, inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Laws of Robotics (minor adaptations from me): [Read More] -
Statistical Unit Tests with ensure4j
As part of another project I am developing ensure4j. The syntax (see the examples in redesigning junit asserts) is working quite nicely, ensure4j is already very useful for internal use. [Read More] -
e updated
I have updated the extraction utility e with several new extraction rules. It now contain 28 different rules for extracting archives. This means it can extract zip, rar, 7zip, gzip, bzip2, rpm, deb, cab, arj, ace, ppmd, lzo, tar.bz2, tar.gz, tlz, tar.lzma, ar, cpio, dar, uharc, zzip, and some more with a single common interface if you have the tools on your PC. Get it here. -
The Best Educational Videos
It is cold and foggy outside, which is the best time to kill… time. And what would be better than killing time with something extremely interesting? I have watched a lot of online documentations, and selected the cream of the crop for you. Watch all of them them, I ensure you that you will get this amazing “wow” feeling after each of them. Read on to view the videos. [Read More] -
Homepage Relocated
Finally, the homepage is online again (more or less). My last webhoster went bancrupt or something, at least he is unreachable. That means that our family’s domain ankerl.org seems to be lost, along with all the files I had on the server. [Read More] -
Jeans Team — Das Zelt
The Jeans Team has produced an absolutely excellent song, the summer hit for 2006 (german language). The MP3 is not available for download any more, but at least you can watch it on YouTube: [Read More] -
How To Make Firefox Over 40% Faster
If you use Linux on a Laptop, chances are high that you can dramatically improve the responsiveness of all your GUI applications. This tip will work for you if you: [Read More] -
e - Extract Any Archive
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Redesigning JUnit Asserts
After reading about Behaviour Driven Development, using jMock for a while, and since I am very fond of Ruby’s core class APIs, I am sure the assertations of JUnit need a major overhaul. [Read More] -
Behaviour Driven Development
Recently there has been quite a bit of fuss about Behaviour Driven Development. So, what is it all about? You should have a look at that presentation from Dave Astels, it is quite interesting: [Read More] -
CoreWars Simulators Overview
I have just received a patch for qMars from Pavel Šavara, so I have finally got some updated information about the different CoreWars simulators I have written. All of them have quite different properties, so have a look and choose whichever suites you best: [Read More] -
Advertisements
As you may have noticed, I have just added advertisements from google to my website. It will not get me rich but might cover the hosting costs. [Read More]