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Linux Watch Command Fails on Second Try

October 22, 2012October 13, 2021 Nicholas Tuck Leave a comment

I am not a system admin so I don’t remember how to do an infinite loop in bash, tcsh, ksh, perl, wtv*sh etc. So I really like the solution of the ‘watch‘ command. Example: The Problem on Second Try Sometimes, however, the first try works as desired and the second try prints weird errors, often […]

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Code Kata Reporting Tool

August 3, 2012October 13, 2021 Nicholas Tuck Leave a comment

Code Katas are so useful we wanted to analyze, share, and relive the infamous experience. Code katas are a core training practice for software development that I believe heavily in.  To read more about what they are and a list of good ones to practice see my Dojo Code Katas post. Here I want to […]

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One Project One Repository: Mercurial Used Right

March 14, 2011June 5, 2013 Nicholas Tuck 7 Comments

This is to help those of you transitioning to Mercurial understand the right way to use it, before someone taints your innocent minds. I was recently apart of a transition from CVS to Mercurial where the Change Management (CM) department was very much involved with the switch. The early game plan was to group projects […]

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