Archives of #Code Snippets

Sharing the Mac OS X clipboard with X11 apps

I’m using WingIDE on my MacBook and I couldn’t get copy/paste to work between WingIDE (running in X11) and native apps.  This meant copying URLs and code snippets was impossible…hugely frustrating! There is a simple fix, as outlined here just run the Property List Editor, open the specifed .plist, tick the 5 checkboxes, save, restart […]
15 years ago

‘Learning by solving tests’ – a website we could do with?

I’ve often wondered why we don’t see more test-driven websites which test our knowledge of the subject matter.  A great example is the Python Challenge website, Nadav Samet built a great tool to test our Python knowledge – you have to be able to code (only some of the tests really need Python) to solve […]
15 years ago