Comments for Colin Harrington

Comment on Running MPIDE (ChipKIT’s Arduino IDE remake) on 64bit Ubuntu by Tom

Tom — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:25:42 +0000

I have been reading about some of the different ways to go about getting MPIDE working on Ubuntu 11.10, 64 bit. I just installed Ubuntu 11.10, 64 bit, MPIDE0023 and Arduino software. Like everyone else, I needed the files libelf and libreadline6. After trying different ways, I ended up getting MPIDE going by adding these files to the lib folder in MPIDE0023. I uploaded the simple starter programs to the CHIPKIT MAX32. It works as expected, and a sigh of relief for me. Just posting to help others… Thanks for your info above Colin.

Comment on Flex doesn’t have a String#replaceAll()? by Natan Cabral

Natan Cabral — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:25:39 +0000

VERY VERY THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Muito Obrigado mesmo!

Comment on GORM :: override a setter on a Grails Domain by Sobreescrevendo Get em Grails « AQIL’s Blog

Sobreescrevendo Get em Grails « AQIL’s Blog — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:46:57 +0000

[...] o método não estava sendo invocado. Após algumas pesquisas descobri (http://colinharrington.net/blog/2009/01/gorm-override-a-setter-on-a-grails-domain/) que a assinatura do método deve ser a mesma do correspondente JavaBean, ou seja, o código [...]

Comment on Customizing rEFIt (an EFI Bootloader – Intel Macs) Slick! by sasas

sasas — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:07:30 +0000

good

Comment on Synergy key-mappings between Linux and OSX by ScanSnap S1500

ScanSnap S1500 — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:01:14 +0000

Wonderful article. Genuinely interested in reading more. Thanks.

Comment on Customizing rEFIt (an EFI Bootloader – Intel Macs) Slick! by new soft

new soft — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:22:47 +0000

new soft…

[...]Customizing rEFIt (an EFI Bootloader – Intel Macs) Slick! – Colin Harrington[...]…

Comment on Flex doesn’t have a String#replaceAll()? by Davis

Davis — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:21:40 +0000

Also, if it’s really that important, you could simply extend the String class and add a replaceAll method, but you would likely find that you will be wrapping the existing replace method which will imbed the replace string in a regular expression. This is interesting because at least in Java the String class can not be extended, and for good reason, it’s immutable and thereby was declared final predominantly due to concepts such as serializing of object data. A remote VM must have a consistent contract of what a String object is and it’s behaviors. However, Flex is probably not going to span over an enterprise solution, so this is moot and the String implementation can be extended. But to what purpose?

Comment on Flex doesn’t have a String#replaceAll()? by Davis

Davis — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:02:26 +0000

I have to admit, given the number of languages which do provide this implementation, I was surprised at first that a replaceAll() method was not provided. However, I use regex frequently, so I simply implemented an old BSD regex pattern I used in Vi. One could argue that most interfaces in an API are wrapping redundant functionality, and therefore those functions/methods are not absolutely necessary. But the primary purpose of an API is to expedite the construction process. And to force someone to put on the regex hat to modify a string seems a bit confounding when a method could be provided which is self-documenting, therefore intuitive, therefore easy to implement. That and not all regex engines were created equally, though for this requirement they nearly all work the same I think. The word developer doesn’t refer to someone who knows all there is to know, if that were true, there would be no such creature. Anyone who is reading this is a developer, they knew enough to research, and found a solution, whether they accept it or not.

Comment on Groovy and Grails IDE Shootout by Seth Wiegard

Seth Wiegard — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:08:11 +0000

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