Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 21, 2025

• Rlang ☛ Kendallknight: An R package for efficient implementation of Kendall’s correlation coefficient computation

  The kendallknight package introduces an efficient implementation of Kendall’s correlation coefficient computation, significantly improving the processing time for large datasets without sacrificing accuracy.

• Rlang ☛ R Package Quality: Validation and beyond!

  As is often the case, it’s pretty easy to talk about “good” R packages.
  We can even wave our hands and talk about packages following “software standards” or “best practices”. But what does that mean?
  

• Remi Collet ☛ Remi Collet: 🎲 PHP version 8.3.23RC1 and 8.4.9RC1

  Release Candidate versions are available in the testing repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS / Alma / Rocky and other clones) to allow more people to test them. They are available as Software Collections, for parallel installation, the perfect solution for such tests, and as base packages.

  RPMs of PHP version 8.4.9RC1 are available

• Collabora ☛ Collabora takes first place at ICME 2025 Grand Challenge

  Building on our Open Source strengths in Hey Hi (AI) and data-driven solutions, Collabora's ML team, led by Marcus Edel, Vineet Suryan, & Aaron Boxer, has taken first place in Track 3 of the ICME 2025 Grand Challenge on Video Super-Resolution for Video Conferencing.

• C

  • Adam Young: I call it my ctaginator

    The GNU/Linux Kernel source is too big to generate all tags for all files. I want only a subset of C files and the corresponding headers. Here is my first take at it. yes it is in python. The program is designed to be run from the root of the GNU/Linux Kernel tree.

• Golang

  • Anton Zhiyanov ☛ Gist of Go: Race conditions

    Preventing data races with mutexes may sound easy, but dealing with race conditions is a whole other matter. Let's learn how to handle these beasts!

• Perl

  • Perl ☛ Analysing FIT data with Perl: basic beginnings

    FIT files record the activities of people using devices such as sports watches and bike head units. Platforms such as Strava and Zwift understand this now quasi-standard format. So does Perl! Here I discuss how to parse FIT files and calculate some basic statistics from the extracted data.

  • Perl ☛ 2025-06-20 [Older] Moving house & automating Perl.Wiki updates

  • Perl ☛ 2025-06-18 [Older] Upcoming Dancer2 2.0.0 release

  • Perl ☛ 2025-06-18 [Older] Array vs List in Perl

  • Perl ☛ 2025-06-15 [Older] Perl Toolchain Summit 2025 in Leipzig

  • The Weekly Challenge ☛ 2025-06-15 [Older] AWS Customer Key Encryption

  • The Weekly Challenge ☛ 2025-06-13 [Older] AWS Bedrock

  • The Weekly Challenge ☛ 2025-06-12 [Older] AWS KMS Encryption