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When I ran the n-queens problem in COBOL using GnuCOBOL I was a little bit surprised how slow the resulting program was -- it was slower than the equivalent PHP program. Therefore I installed the IBM COBOL for Linux compiler on the same machine and compared performance, see Installing IBM COBOL for…
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Task at hand: Install the 60-day trial of "IBM COBOL for Linux" on Arch Linux. Please see the updated installation description here: Installing IBM COBOL for Linux on Arch Linux #2. 1. Download. Downloading the compiler is at IBM COBOL for Linux on x86 60-day Trial or here. 2. Unpacking.…
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When compiling GnuCOBOL from source this works without any hiccups. The usual configure, make sequence. I had written on this in Generating JSON with COBOL. But if you run make check you might encounter multiple check-failures when run after makepkg. The reason is that makepkg introduces a couple…
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Task at hand: Process ca. 400,000 files. In our case each file needed to be converted from EBCDIC to ASCII. Obviously, you could do this sequentially. But having a multiprocessor machine you should make use of all processing power. The chosen approach is as follows: Generate a list of all files to…
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StackEdit is a Markdown editor, which runs in the browser, but stores files locally. The following features characterize StackEdit: Markdown and corresponding HTML are fully in sync and visible on the same screen. Changing Markdown will instantly change the HTML. StackEdit calls it "Scroll…
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Mermaid is a JavaScript library which provides diagrams for: Flowchart diagrams Sequence diagrams Class diagrams State diagrams Entity Relationship diagrams Gantt diagrams Pie char Git graphs Currently Mermaid does not offer line charts. The Mermaid website also offers a…
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When I flew with Air France from Paris CDG to Montpellier I was surprised that all seats offered Wifi, which was not mandated to switch off. Furthermore, bluetooth was not required to be turned off, and all seats offered two plugs to charge electronic devices via USB. Using Wifi on board the…
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This blog is built using a static-site generator called Saaze. Saaze can also serve content fully dynamic. Saaze is kind of the successor of Handle. Saaze and Handle were both written by Gilbert Pellegrom. Saaze has the following objectives: Easy to run Easy to host Easy to edit Easy to theme Fast…
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Yesterday I observed below error when accessing YouTube via my tablet: I had experienced related errors: January 2017: Youtube 500 Internal Server Error May 2017: Youtube 500 Internal Server Error For Facebook and WordPress I had observed: June 2014: Facebook Was Down on 19-Jun-2014 March 2019:…
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In Alexander Six's blog I saw that you can highlight HTML anchor text with a skewed bar. Below is the solution I use in this blog. I am still struggling with my own requirement that the skeyY angle is dependent on the length of the anchor string. Currently I do not know how I can find this out. …
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As mentioned in Speed-Tests With Pingdom.com the ratio of CSS to HTML (=content) was roughly 50:1. In my case CSS was taking 248 KB, while HTML is only 4.4 KB. Previously this blog continued to use Tailwind CSS, as started by the example for Saaze. But Tailwind CSS does not make too much sense for…
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1. Problem statement. Print COBOL section names, ideally title-cased. Use a Perl one-liner for this task. perl -ne 'printf("%3d %s\n",++$i,join("-",map{ucfirst lc $_}split(/\-/,$1))) if /([\-\w]+)\sSECTION\./i' COBOL-Source.cbl It will print "Working-Storage" as well,…
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1. Problem statement. Generate JSON from COBOL WORKING-STORAGE section memory area. GnuCOBOL can generate and parse JSON strings. Example. IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID.…
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Assume $f$ is a $m$-vector valued function in $n$-variables, i.e., $f:U\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}^m$. The Jacobian is given by $$ J = \begin{pmatrix} f_{x_1}^{(1)} & \cdots & f_{x_n}^{(1)} \\ \vdots & \ddots & \vdots \\ f_{x_1}^{(m)} & \cdots &…
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1. I have written more than 300 blog posts, see sitemap. I wanted to import them into Hashnode. As all these posts were already in Markdown format, it was obvious to use the "bulk import" feature in Hashnode. The Hashnode bulk import reads a zip-file. This zip-file contains individual…
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1. Introduction. I always wanted to benchmark PHP, to confirm myself that choosing PHP as a static site generator is not a dead-end, compared, for example, against node.js. PHP 7 has already made huge performance advancements. See PHP 7: Features and Performance Comparison: Drupal - Compared to…
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1. Problem statement. When using one of the static site generators an important part of all of them is to convert Markdown to HTML. In my case I use Saaze, and I measured roughly 60% of the overall runtime is used for converting Markdown to HTML. I have written on Saaze here and here. When…
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Today I saw a SIGSEGV error when fetching data from Twitter: After reloading the page the error was gone. I hadn't seen this kind of error before. Version used: Brave 1.25.73, Chromium: 91.0.4472.106 (Official Build) (64-bit). Revision…
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Before I moved away my blog from WordPress.com to this place, I checked whether another provider would fit my needs. See for example surge.sh, vercel.app, or netlify.app. I also looked at Hashnode.com. I liked Hashnode as it provides Markdown as input. I later learned that Hashnode also provided…
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I wanted to redirect Google search results from WordPress.com to this blog. Ideally, one would add a "canonical link" in the head-tag of the HTML code. See for example stitcher.io: 07 — Be Searchable: <head> . . . <link rel="canonical"…