Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 11, 2023

• Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppInt64 0.0.4 on CRAN: Minor Bugfix

  The new-ish package RcppInt64 (announced earlier this fall in this post, with two small updates following) arrived on CRAN minutes ago as relase 0.0.4. RcppInt64 in R and C++, and regroups them in a single package. It offers two interfaces: both a more standard as<>() converter from R values along with its companions wrap() to return to R, as well as more dedicated functions ‘from’ and ‘to’.

• Git

  • Pete Zaitcev: git cp orig copy

    Problem: I want to copy a file in git and preserve its history.

    Solution: Holy guacamole!:

    git checkout -b dup
    git mv orig copy
    git commit --author="Greg " -m "cp orig copy"
    git checkout HEAD~ orig
    git commit --author="Greg " -m "restore orig"
    git checkout -
    git merge --no-ff dup
    

• Java

  • Computing UK ☛ Life after Oracle: Redefining Java in the enterprise in 2024

    I have been working with Java for more than 25 years and witnessed first-hand its dramatic expansion to now dominate enterprise infrastructure environments.

  • The Server Side ☛ A primer on Java 21 virtual threads with examples

    On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, the Amazon Kinesis data streaming service in AWS' main region US-East-1 went down for several hours. The company explained the outage in its subsequent failure report.