Monthly Archives: May 2009

Folk IT – and other articles about dealing with the business

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Kon

An interesting article for those who have the time. Its about business coming up with solutions to IT probs – ‘Folk IT’ – since they learn the IT terminology when things go wrong, they may as well contribute to the … Continue reading →

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Shared Libraries on Linux

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Kon

Fun = figuring out shared library deps on linux.  Not… This useful article (Program Library-HOWTO) talks about how lib files are discovered and what you can do to force them to be found. LD_LIBRARY_PATH which I’ve seen many times before, … Continue reading →

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The easy 2 digest awk guide

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Kon

Super helpful, in glorious html, easier than reading a man page.  What more could you want. http://www.vectorsite.net/tsawk.html

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Multiline Bash

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Kon

This is so simple, yet so easily forgotten $ echo ‘this is a test of the emergency \ > backslash multiline > prompt system. > When will it end, I dont know for sure > how about if i close … Continue reading →

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The Feel of Scala

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Kon

This is a talk with Bill Venners of Artima (publisher of the Programming in Scala book) that goes through some neat Scala stuff http://tinyurl.com/cgjxvg

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Bash Completion and ^ (caret)

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Kon

A neat article about enabling bash_completion in linux (look for a file called /etc/bash_completion and call it in your rc) Also, something I always forget the exact syntax for, is the exclude or not completion. Eg ls *.[^bz2] will list … Continue reading →

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