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Largely for my own reference, here are some Unix shell tricks that have come up lately. If you’re using Linux, Mac OS X, or other Unix-like systems, these might be handy. Redirecting output When a process starts, it opens three file descriptors: file descriptor 0 for standard input (STDIN), file descriptor 1 for standard output (STDOUT), and [...]
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I’ve seen some nice Google Earth mashups that draw things on the map and let the user poke around, so I had a brief look at KML to see how it works. Conceptually, it’s very similar to web page: you write a document in KML (instead of HTML), and load it in Google Earth (instead [...]
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I had the pleasure of attending the third annual Much Ado About Agile conference hosted by Agile Vancouver. As a good example of our organizational agility, we divided up the conference sessions amongst ourselves and tag-teamed between attending sessions and working back at the office (or remotely). Ken Schwaber, one of the founding fathers of [...]
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