Programming News at A.P.Lawrence http://aplawrence.com/ Programming feed at aplawrence.com: Thousands of articles, reviews, consultants listings, skills tests, opinion, how-to's for Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, networking, web site maintenance and more.. hourly 6 2008-01-01T00:00+00:00 en A.P. Lawrence Copyright A.P. Lawrence A.P. Lawrence (mailto:rssfeeds@aplawrence.com) 2009-11-09T14:56:12+00:00 A.P.Lawrence Logo http://aplawrence.com/image21.gif http://aplawrence.com A simple file I/O program in C by Girish Venkatachalam Programming,Girish ; 2009/10/19 by Girish Venkatachalam <br /> <!-- LEFTADOK --> <!-- PCOUNT --> <!-- PCOUNT --> <p><i>Girish Venkatachalam is a UNIX hacker with more than a decade of networking and crypto programming experience. His hobbies include yoga,cycling, cooking and he <a href="http://gayatri-hitech.com/about.html">runs his own business.</a> Details here:</i><br /><br /> <a href="http://gayatri-hitech.com">http://gayatri-hitech.com</a> <br /><a href="http://spam-cheetah.com">http://spam-cheetah.com</a> </p> <p> Doing even the simplest programming tasks in C can be daunting due to its fondness for segfaulting. A C program can be found crashing on printf, command line parsing or nearly every attempt to print a string that is NULL. Or even access it. </p> <p><a href="http://aplawrence.com/rss/index.html">Full Text RSS Feed now available</a></p> <p>Comments: <a href="http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/newcomm.pl?commenting=/Girish/c-fileio.html">Click Here.</a></p> <p><br /><br /><i><b>Many of the products and books I review are things I purchased for my own use. 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I call B.S., Google by Anthony Lawrence Web-HTML,Programming ; 2009/10/08<br /> <!-- LEFTADOK --> <!-- PCOUNT --> <!-- PCOUNT --> <p>I recently read and reviewed <a href="http://aplawrence.com/Books/googled.html">Googled: The End of the World As We Know It</a>. One of the things that stood out was Google's tough vetting process for engineers. Supposedly only people at the top of their game need apply.</p> <p> Google's current <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/lifeatgoogle/englife.html">Jobs page for engineers</a> confirms that, saying things like "Our search for the world's best engineers", and that they want people who "Have broad knowledge and expertise" and "world-class programming skills ". 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His hobbies include yoga,cycling, cooking and he <a href="http://gayatri-hitech.com/about.html">runs his own business.</a> Details here:</i><br /><br /> <a href="http://gayatri-hitech.com">http://gayatri-hitech.com</a> <br /><a href="http://spam-cheetah.com">http://spam-cheetah.com</a> <br /><br /> <p> I type </p> <pre> $ dict vim vim n 1: a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; &quot;jogging works off my excess energy&quot;; &quot;he seemed full of vim and vigor&quot; [syn: {energy}, {vitality}] 2: an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); &quot;his writing conveys great energy&quot; [syn: {energy}, {vigor}, {vigour}] </pre> <!-- LEFTADOK --> <p> and got this along with the idea that there is also an editor by name Vim of course. 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His hobbies include yoga,cycling, cooking and he <a href="http://gayatri-hitech.com/about.html">runs his own business.</a> Details here:</i><br /><br /> <a href="http://gayatri-hitech.com">http://gayatri-hitech.com</a> <br /><a href="http://spam-cheetah.com">http://spam-cheetah.com</a> </p> <p> I don&#39;t like the title of this article. I know this is not appropriate and I am not in a mood to look around or rack my brains for a fitting title. It is going to be a tough proposition since words cannot adequately express my feelings no matter what language I use. </p> <p><a href="http://aplawrence.com/rss/index.html">Full Text RSS Feed now available</a></p> <p>Comments: <a href="http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/newcomm.pl?commenting=/Girish/c-programming.html">Click Here.</a></p> <p><br /><br /><i><b>Many of the products and books I review are things I purchased for my own use. 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