I’ have just left this as a comment at Joey’s place, but I seem to have screwed up my Reader account with Blogware, so I’ll write it here. Accordion Guy’s dad is in the hospital with an infection; but it’s not just an infection, it’s complicated by the fact that he’s a transplant recipient with a compromised immune system. We ask your prayers, wishes, hopes, candles, whatever for Joey’s dad — and for mine. My father’s wending his way through an epic array of sequential medical stunts: they want to take care of this, but they have to do that first, and there’s a risk if they don’t do the other thing. He’s negotiated the first round, but there’re a couple more ahead of him. Double up your spiritual energies, and let’s get these fathers through the obstacle course on a two-for-one.
I'm saying mass on Friday, so we’ll do a “special intentions” dedication for Accordion Guy’s dad and mine.
“I wanna say right now that this mass is goin’ out for a couple of special guys, the dad of a friend of mine and my dad, too — so Dad, so Mr. deVilla, if you’re out there, this prayer is for you. . . .”
Posted by AKMA at October 29, 2003 03:19 PM | TrackBackI thought your Dad was doing okay, and am sorry to hear that he's still facing the battles. I left a note at Joey's but want to say here that I hope your Dad and Joey's Dad are both back on their feet quickly.
My thoughts are with you all.
Posted by: Shelley at October 29, 2003 06:55 PMshout outs at Mass... thats one way to get people tuned in. I won't be there on Friday, but both dads and sons will be in my prayers.
Posted by: Susie at October 29, 2003 09:39 PMAnd mine. Amen
Posted by: NTA at October 30, 2003 07:27 AMand mine. peace to you.
Posted by: Heather at October 30, 2003 10:08 AMAKMA, thanks very much for the dedication. It means a lot to me.
My prayers and good thoughts go to your dad. Hey, maybe I'll try a little Feng Shui and move the dining room furniture for his speedy recovery!
I often say "A filet mignon on a flaming sword to you!" when I want to express my admiration, but I know that you're a vegetarian, so how 'bout "A deluxe Garden Burger on a flaming sword to you!" instead?
Posted by: Joey deVilla at October 31, 2003 09:22 AMA variable leads a simple life, full of activity but quite short (measured in nanoseconds, usually). It all begins when the program finds a variable declaration, and a variable is born into the world of the executing program. There are two possible places where the variable might live, but we will venture into that a little later.
Posted by: Roland at January 12, 2004 10:32 PMNote the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.
Posted by: Beatrice at January 12, 2004 10:32 PMEach Stack Frame represents a function. The bottom frame is always the main function, and the frames above it are the other functions that main calls. At any given time, the stack can show you the path your code has taken to get to where it is. The top frame represents the function the code is currently executing, and the frame below it is the function that called the current function, and the frame below that represents the function that called the function that called the current function, and so on all the way down to main, which is the starting point of any C program.
Posted by: Christian at January 12, 2004 10:34 PMBeing able to understand that basic idea opens up a vast amount of power that can be used and abused, and we're going to look at a few of the better ways to deal with it in this article.
Posted by: Alveredus at January 13, 2004 09:34 AMWhen compared to the Stack, the Heap is a simple thing to understand. All the memory that's left over is "in the Heap" (excepting some special cases and some reserve). There is little structure, but in return for this freedom of movement you must create and destroy any boundaries you need. And it is always possible that the heap might simply not have enough space for you.
Posted by: Osmund at January 13, 2004 09:35 AMThe rest of our conversion follows a similar vein. Instead of going through line by line, let's just compare end results: when the transition is complete, the code that used to read:
Posted by: Gwenhoivar at January 13, 2004 09:35 AM