It is difficult for me to not pick up the phone these days and make an “I told you so” call to a past client. This guy was absolutely baptized by Microsoft. We were developing some software on Linux and I cannot tell you the number of times I heard “this would take me 15 minutes in DOT NET.” Naturally I responded “it would run on only one machine, yours, the last Windows user in … Windows 8 – Vista Part DeuxRead more
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Thirty Two Seconds of IT Experience
We all get these phone calls. Well, this week I got another one. Here’s how the phone call went: Caller ID: I really should leave the phone number in here but they have probably changed it long ago. Caller: this is blah from blah-blah-blah. I see you have some Linux in your background and I’m looking for a good Linux person, do you have time to talk? Me: I’m kind of busy now, but, what … Thirty Two Seconds of IT ExperienceRead more
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Substring Exists in String
Today I got to burn about three hours looking online for an answer to what F$LOCATE() makes a simple task. What simple task you ask? Why, I was trying to verify one string existed inside of another string while working in Bash under Linux. You see, I learned to write software on robust systems. Yes, I know, the Linux/Unix developer motto is “test nothing, just let it fail”, but I was taught to write good … Substring Exists in StringRead more