Introduction Quicksort is one of the most common sorting algorithms and one of the most efficient. It's so common that it's part of C89. That said, it's still good to know how it works, its strengths, and it's weaknesses. It takes as a divide and conquer approach to sorting. An element is selected as a … Continue reading Quicksort in C
My Experience with Owning a Tacoma TRD Sport and TRD Pro
Introduction So far, I’ve had three Toyota Tacomas, a 2nd gen and two 3rd gens. The reason I’ve had two 3rd gens is because I leased the first one. When the 2016 3rd gen was released I wasn’t sure how good it was going to be. Especially with competition from the rereleased Chevy Colorado. My … Continue reading My Experience with Owning a Tacoma TRD Sport and TRD Pro
Byte Swapping in C
Introduction Some times you need to swap bytes. Sometimes you don't. But right now we do. Well, we don't but if we were implementing some sorting functions we'd need a good swap function. Sorting typically doesn't move pointers around, instead it moves the bytes pointed to by the pointer. Generic Swap We only want to … Continue reading Byte Swapping in C
KDocker 5.1 Released
After quite some time and a few people asking, I've put up a new release of KDocker. The big new feature in this release is the ability to save application settings. This way you can dock an application and you don't have to go though and configure how KDocker interacts with it. It will automatically … Continue reading KDocker 5.1 Released
Binary Search and Insert
Introduction When dealing with arrays it's often necessary to keep their elements in sorted order. The easiest way is to use an insert algorithm that always puts element into the array in sorted order. That said, you don't know where elements will end up in the array because if you already knew the order you … Continue reading Binary Search and Insert
Base64 Encode and Decode in C
Introduction A very popular way to encode binary data is Base64. The basis of this is an encoding table. As you might expect, there are 64 total characters that go into the tale. There are multiple implementations of base64 with slight differences. They are all the same except for the last two characters and line … Continue reading Base64 Encode and Decode in C
Hex Encode and Decode in C
Introduction A very common task when working with binary data in C is, converting it to and from Hex. It's unfortunate that C doesn't provide a standard function that can take care of this for us. However, it's pretty easy to implement a set of functions to handle it. Hex encoding is always twice the … Continue reading Hex Encode and Decode in C
