Jim's Place

Years ago, I used a macro in C and C++ programs to provide information on the current line of code being executed.

I had the need to test connectivity between a couple of servers, recently.

In the early 1990’s, I began writing for a few of my favorite technical magazines.

I saw in the online Wall Street Journal that Radio Shack is preparing to file for bankruptcy: http://www.wsj.com/articles/radioshack-prepares-bankruptcy-filing-1421279360 I had read a blog post eulogizing the store from a former employee several weeks ago.

I was a little choked up when I read Andrew Binstock’s post Farewell, Dr.

I built a non-Turing-complete interpreter in Go whose current incarnation is simply named “rpnrepl”. rpnrepl is a very tiny stack-based, postfix language whose syntax is similar to that of the Forth programming language. rpnrepl can only perform four math…

In the Go code I’ve been writing to help learn the language, I’ve been using a common function to deal with error conditions.

I needed a command-line e-mail sender utility that would send e-mail via my GMail account.

Here we Go again… I had corresponded with some seasoned Go programmers about variant types some time ago.

When I first began using microcomputers in the late 1970’s, development tools for 8-bit machines were precious and mysterious commodities.

Several months ago, as the “year of learning to code” was getting underway, I wondered what it would be like to have a JavaScript REPL available for my mobile device.

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by crystal radios.

My introduction to the world of electronic bulletin-board systems ( BBS’s ) began in the mid-1980’s.

I was a senior in high-school in the mid-1980’s when I first encountered a dialect of the Forth programming language.

Several years ago, I created a Forth-like programming language interpreter called FIF ( FIF Isn’t Forth ).

The program below is both a batch file and a JavaScript WSH console file.

I had written a little C program a while back for the 19th annual International Obfuscated C Coding contest.