skh:tec

Well That Was Silly Of Me, Issues with Sed….

shicks — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:32:13 +0000

Refreshing my memory on sed caused me to run into two issues tonight. Firstly…. the -n parameter only shows the patterns that you wish to show [after it is used]. Secondly, the order of deleting and printing lines matters. It turns …

Regular Expressions Tester

shicks — Wed, 02 May 2012 04:10:02 +0000

This is one elusive tool that has been bugging me for years. There are quite a lot of regular expression tools out there, and not all of them test the expression environment that you need. [Rarely is it ever mentioned …

A Tool That Would Be Rather Nice To Have

shicks — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:03:08 +0000

There is one tool that I haven’t found an open source project for or a commercial product. I think that it would be quite useful in creating dependable software. I would like to see for evaluating unit tests. It would …

Computer Science Classes I Would Like To See Offered

shicks — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:19:18 +0000

My friend Warren recently expressed a very “scorched earth” opinion of the standard Computer Science curriculum. He suggested that given the available of free CS courses (OpenCourseWare and the like) and experts at your fingertips (Blogs and Stackoverflow); wheres the value …

I’m a student, what [language, framework, API, concept] should I learn?

shicks — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:34:19 +0000

Part one of a continuing series. There are two ways to learn something. The first way is to learn from another’s advice [the easy way], and then there is the hard way [through experience and making mistakes]. When starting out …

Lost the Passion for Software Development?

shicks — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:07:11 +0000

This is a list of potential tips to help a fellow Software Engineer recover passion in his or her work: Learn A New Language: Stuck with working solely in Java and C++ languages? Learn Erlang, or Lisp. Try out Scheme, …

Technical Writing for Programmers

shicks — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:08:42 +0000

Forewarning: I’m not an expert on this subject, however I do play one on television. Software engineering is mostly a solitary, and technical occupation. Most of the non-programming language communication made by a developer is communicated to another person with …

Suggestions for Authors of Technical Books

shicks — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:36:13 +0000

If you are writing about something that has to be installed on the reader’s machine there has been something that has become annoying. Please do not provide distribution based instructions for installing the software/component/framework. I would prefer it if this …

Trends with Low Powered Clients [Tablets, and Smartphones]

shicks — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:10:41 +0000

Recently there has been a push to replace desktops and laptops with low powered machines. These machines have taken the place as mobile devices [phones], tablets, netbooks, and with some ambiguity ultra books. These machines claim to push the responsibility of major processing onto server environments [the cloud], and leaves the visual tasks [GUI, localization, collecting user requests] up to the client. If you believe the marketing hype....

CrossOver Linux Professional

shicks — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:26:18 +0000

I’ve been using [Gentoo] Linux as my primary OS for quite a few years now. I like it. It helps me work, the way I want to work. The only downside to being this committed to using Linux is the …