Archive for the ‘Productivity’ Category

Stuff I need to lookup every time

September 30, 2010 by marco · Comments Off
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Set ignore to all files of a directory with subversion: $ cd cache $ svn propset svn:ignore ‘*’ . $ svn ci . -m ‘Ignore set on cache dir.’ Show changed files between two revisions, overview $ svn diff -r 300:HEAD –summarize Show changed files between two revisions, for each revision: $ svn log -v [...]

Feedbackloops in Software Development

February 28, 2010 by marco · Comments Off
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Since feedback is a form of communication, excessive feedback will have the effect like an explosion in communication paths and will eventually produce more noise than signal. Any feedback loop in the system must help facilitate the management of change and efficiently adapt requirements along the the way. If this is not the case for [...]

Useful Linux Commands 04/2009

April 12, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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I had a list of files from a large file structure as a result from a maintenance script run with lines like this: /home/web/…/sources/…/2008/12/25/4f1feabbd76f79ecab150bdee3f6ae4d.xml /home/web/…/sources/…/2008/12/25/e506e433a2d87f0275c7641da59bbf7f.xml /home/web/…/sources/…/2008/12/28/901c4f081645b986e9b1377d3f586b8e.xml /home/web/…/sources/…/2008/12/28/6bec4d4bbcf8f596c40694210d220a3b.xml /home/web/…/sources/…/2008/12/24/477c535d6111605c8f6020a959f32fde.xml /home/web/…/sources/…/2008/12/24/9f253a96fc26d8f6d9e61b8f1bdb3453.xml Each line represented a document path to a file which was supposed to be removed from the filesystem. You can do that with the following simple [...]

Bulk Image Resize using Conditional Width

April 4, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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I am currently working on a project in which we have lots of images from an old CMS waiting to be migrated into a new layout. Of course there are restrictions so it should not happen that certain image types exceed a certain max. width. OK, we have many many images… So I took a [...]

Etherpad

February 15, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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EtherPad is a free webbsased editor which lets people remotely and simultaneously edit the same text document. Just click ‘Create new Pad‘ and you see the URL which you can send to your remote friend(s). Use it for group development on code snippets, catch realtime meeting minutes, brainstorming ideas and many things more… Thanks AppJet [...]

Hippie Completion in Eclipse

January 24, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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I was using a factory like this $factory = new Object_Factory(); $curr_object = $factory->create(‘brand’); to generate instances of objects I needed and wondered why Eclipse could not auto-complete e.g. getters and setters in my code for me later on for the $curr_object. My productivity and my motivation to type all that stuff were seriously suffering… [...]