Halfbaked Ideas

I just upgraded WordPress to the newly released version 2.2.3, using Subversion as described here. I used to upgrade WP by hand, a tedious task at best. Never again. SVN makes the upgrade process short and sweet. Highly recommended.

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I am trying to grok how to write a simple ‘du’ like program that walks a directory structure ( not just one but all nested directories ) and calculates a sum of all the file sizes. I found some sum() code that I understand how that works.
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I’ve spent a lot of time since the last posting on tool-chain issues. I decided to go with emacs as my editor/IDE, and darcs as my version control system. Since I mostly use a Mac, I went with Aquamacs as my emacs. It is hands down the best looking emacs I have ever seen.
Hacking emacs [...]

I want to consider the simulation of dealing a deck of cards. The deck is simply the list of integers D = [1,2,...,52]. Dealing the cards amounts to generating a random permutation of D.
Here’s how I would do it in java.
public class Shuffle {
private static java.util.Random rand = new java.util.Random();
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