Category: Programming
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Programming and Escape Characters (PowerShell)
Having started using Perl back in 1996 and learning conventions for character escaping in like eight to twelve other languages since, I’m continually impressed by how escape characters vary by language. And in the case of PowerShell, the (`) character really pulls the majority of the weight in the language. PowerShell, coming from the Microsoft…
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Text Editor Debate
There was a listener question posed on Coder Radio 477 that asked: dafuq with the vim an shit, bruh? Having edited code since about 1988 (DOS 3.5 Bible era) and actually having taken classes programming in OG Unix (SunOS 4.1, 1993) before the time of vim, there was Bill Joy’s vi. But around that time,…
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Adding Lots of Storage Pools to Libvirt
I do not enjoy having subdirectories involved for storing files in libvert. The virt-manager interface is just way too brutal about how you manually add storage pools. After much ranting, I wrote a bash script to add these directories for my VM disk images. 1 #!/bin/bash 2 3 set -e 4 #set -x 5 existing_pools=()…
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Dumbassery at Transunion
Stupid QA process at TransUnion creates a blank page at the most emotional time of an interaction: the confirmation page for your credit freeze. [span id=”trace” style=”display:none”] java.lang.NullPointerException at com.truelink.app.consumerCredit.site.fa.tags.dfpAd.DFPAdTag.doStartTag(DFPAdTag.java:24) at _jsp._copy._sf._securityFreeze._applyFreezeConfirm_0en__jsp._jspService(copy/sf/securityFreeze/applyFreezeConfirm_en.jsp:130) at _jsp._copy._sf._securityFreeze._applyFreezeConfirm_0en__jsp._jspService(copy/sf/securityFreeze/applyFreezeConfirm_en.jsp:94)
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Groovy on JDK9 #unhappy
Getting compiled with jdk9. Tried using javapackager. No difference in error. Java invocation: .\jre\bin\java.exe -Xmx512m ^ -DsuppressSwingDropSupport=true -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true ^ -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd -Dswing.aatext=true ^ -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:+PrintClassHistogram ^ “-XX:ErrorFile=%USERPROFILE%\java_err.txt” “-XX:HeapDumpPath=%USERPROFILE%” ^ –add-modules java.base,java.xml,java.xml.bind,java.desktop,java.compiler -cp lfclient.jar;commons-lang3-3.2.jar;glazedlists_java15-1.9.0.jar;jfreechart-fse-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar;jmathplot.jar;jmathio.jar;miglayout-4.0-swing.jar;groovy.jar;groovy-swing.jar;.\ ^ candela.lanforge.lfclient Am wondering if there is like something similar to the ‘tools.jar’ that I should be preparing. All of the errors below…
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Adopting Complexity
Becoming a grey beard geek has involved adopting complexity. Some would assume unnecessary complexity… But other recognize ideal underneath the tangle: a challenge to master. Setting yourself a regular challenge keeps your hopes set higher than the horizon. Geek on!
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Not My Favorite Xmas Card
I’ve been listening to a lot of WTR and other podcasts that interview people who dwell on the topics of inclusion and empathy in the technical work space. I listen to them because I want other people around me to succeed. I want my sons and daughters to feel welcomed to the sciences or computer…
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Applying patches?
You know me, I love using bash. for f in ~/Documents/jbr_patches/*diff ; do \ echo $f; patch -p1 < $f || exit 1; \ sleep 1 ; done Right.
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Learn How To Code With Star Wars: The Force Awakens Characters
http://gizmodo.com/learn-how-to-code-with-star-wars-the-force-awakens-cha-1741510958
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