Monthly Archives: August 2016

Making Parent Directories Automatically

Posted on 2016-08-03 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski, mbork, posted a handy snippet of Elisp to automatically create parent directories if they don’t already exist. It’s similar to mkdir -p in that if intermediate directories don’t already exist they are created for you. That turns out … Continue reading →

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SICP in Info

Posted on 2016-08-02 by jcs

Those of you who have been around for a while know that I consider Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) one of the best—if not the best—computer science books ever written. I was an experienced software engineer when I … Continue reading →

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Org Template for Specification Documents

Posted on 2016-08-01 by jcs

Karsten Schmidt published a really nice template for producing great looking specification documents. The result looks like this. Here is the Org document that produced that output. The whole project, including the CSS style sheet is on GitHub. You may … Continue reading →

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