Markdown to PDF Utility

I needed to get a Markdown document in PDF format. Unable to find a good solution, I set off to make a Markdown to PDF conversion utility. About 20 lines of Python later, here we are!

Ubuntu Screencast Software for 11.04+

I browsed Google for quite a while before I finally found a good product for recording screencasts on Ubuntu. Most software I found, no offense gtk-recordMyDesktop, was extremely outdated and hardly functional. Video quality was either terrible or video/audio was out of sync.

VI Keybindings in your Shell

There was once a very sad point in my development career where if I made a typo earlier in one of my bash statements, I would have to hold the left arrow to get my cursor over to the problem area and fix it. Then, one fateful day, I discovered VI keybindings in the shell!

Introduction to Recursion – Part 2

Part two of the Introduction to Recursion series! In this video, we discuss the Factorial function and its recursive properties in depth.

jQuery Table Sort Plugin | Stupidly simple jQuery table sort

I needed a simple jQuery plugin to let me sort table columns. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find one that captured the simplicity I was looking for. I don’t need 1000+ lines of code for a simple table sort!

Git Workflow: Crap, I committed to master!

So you know you should pretty much never hack directly on master when working with git. Instead, you should create branches and merge them later. Beyond best practices for their own sake, some github projects really want you creating pull requests from a certain branch.

Sometimes, however, I get in the zone and forget to checkout a branch because I want to get this feature DONE! In my haste, I commit to master directly. I don’t want my pull request to be rejected just because I hacked on master.

C: request for member in something not a structure or union

If you’re trying to pass a pointer to a structure to a function, you may be getting the compiler error request for member ‘SOME_PROPERTY’ in something not a structure or union. If you swear you’re passing in a pointer to the proper structure, and you’re certain, there are no typos for the member name you’re trying to access, you may just be experiencing a bit of pointer ambiguity.

Introduction to Recursion – Part 1

Part 1 of a multipart series covering the basics of recursion.

K&R: Error: conflicting types for ‘getline’

So you’re reading through K&R’s The C Programming Language, and you’re on page 29 or so, section 1.9 entitled Character Arrays.

Dual Monitors on Kubuntu 11.10 (In Under 10 Minutes)

If you’re having trouble getting dual monitors to work on the latest version of Kubuntu (Currently 11.10), this guide will attempt to save your sanity!