June 17th, 2009
find . -name ".svn" -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1024 -r rm -rf
-n prevents rm too many arguments error
-r prevents execution if none found (and prevents error!)
originally from:
http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/902/delete-all-.svn-directories-from-current-path-recursive
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June 9th, 2009
Remove those silly quizes, that everyone is doing… “what type of X am I” type apps, that splatter your feed.
Author’s page here
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February 15th, 2009
I’m playing with chromium… not chrome, but chromium!
http://code.google.com/chromium/
Chroimium
2.0.163.0 build 9836
Is it fast, hell yeah!
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January 3rd, 2009
I find myself in a midst of buying for the sake of buying. Do you remember buying something because you needed it? What ever happened to make due with what you have?
There’s a fine line, of being a consumer hound, being consumer savvy or even frugal.
I found myself in a local computer store, thinking I needed one or two new hard drives (to put them in an mirror raid solution). Then I realized, why am I storing old information that I’ll never look at again. I should just delete it. It’s not like they’re life time worthy moments like photos, or work that I’ve done. It was meaningless data, that had no future worth.
Delete, delete, delete…
I now have enough storage to last me a lot longer.
Trying to be smarter with my money… just because you have it, doesn’t mean you need to spend it.
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December 5th, 2008
Adrian made a comment about public speaking… i’m not sure how i would react if i was speaking in front of people I’ve never met, as opposed to the telephone conference call I had with these same people I’ve never met.
When I was up in montreal, I think I had a good meeting with peers then. Being able to read and react to people is huge with me. I could tailor my presentation a little more… allow for q&a through out the presentation, or just at the end. See if i’m loosing people, or if they’re bored… reading an audience is huge… while not having any metrics on the audience is very difficult. I wonder how radio hosts do it…
oh well, it’s over… at least I’ve shown the architecture committee what else is out there.
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December 4th, 2008
Work has given us some what 10% days… like Google’s 20% days, but more work focused endeavours. So, today, I spent most of my time, trying to show off the virtues of Symfony Framework for certain parts of a work product, over using Zend.
My analogy is this, you have to paint a big wall, and you are given a single paint brush (Zend framework). Why use a paint brush when a paint roller or a spray gun (Symfony) would be a much better alternative. I’m not saying you can’t use the paint brush at all. Use the paint brush for the corners. Get the bulk of it done with the paint roller. Alternatively, tape the walls, floor, and ceiling, and spray everything. The choice should be use the best tools for the job.
In the end, people looking at the wall will not care how the wall is painted. However, if you’re a customer looking at paying someone to paint it… the customer will care. Said customer is looking at the quality of the workmanship, how much it will cost / the bottom line, and how long will it take? All of which leads to the choice of using better tools.
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December 3rd, 2008
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November 24th, 2008
title says it all. What’s going on?!? Why facebook do you limit my creative freedom to express myself in multiple outlets?!?
okay… so this all got started from another website… www.botchedcode.com it’s super geek. I know it, but it keeps me entertained, and hopefully other programmers/nerds/geeks whatever. It’s completely computer programming related, but that’s my career.
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October 13th, 2008
elevator psychology, http://ping.fm/nDgJ9 this should make you wonder how unique you are.
Tags: custom url, Ping.fm, social networking
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September 17th, 2008
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