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Peter Drucker: The Rules of Effectiveness – Personal Growth – Medium

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/22

This is so simple and so hard at the same time: [WayBack] Peter Drucker: The Rules of Effectiveness – Personal Growth – Medium:

  1. Design the Practice, Not the Person
    This means you have to set schedules when to do things and for how long.
    This is hard in an ever changing, ever interrupting world where tasks are of tough to estimate duration.
  2. Embrace Purposeful Abandonment
    Less+Less==More; which implies you should do a lot less things to be effective. Skip the things you do not really need.
  3. Switch From Exploring to Exploiting
    For me it was hard to understand, especially not being in my 20ies any more for a long time: high reward risky paths are better to be pursued than risk-averse paths.

The cool thing though: Peter Drucker found about all these during his life which was mostly (1909-2005) before computing and social network became ubiquitous.

So yes: the above should be possible in an agile environment.

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] Peter Drucker: The Rules of Effectiveness – Personal Growth – Medium – Marjan Venema – Google+

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Kelly Sommers on Twitter: “What are some good open ended questions to ask developers or testers in interviews to get them talking?”

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/21

Interesting thread: [WayBack] Kelly Sommers on Twitter: “What are some good open ended questions to ask developers or testers in interviews to get them talking?”

–jeroen

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reStructuredText – document title and subtitle

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/21

Always watch how you format your reStructuredText sections: [WayBack] Docutils FAQ: 2.6 How can I indicate the document title? Subtitle?

That is why I have these comments at the top of most of my documents:

.. $ %
.. # * = + ^ ~ - : . _ ` ' "

The first two are the document title and subtitle marks, the others the level 1 through 13.

–jeroen

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Is there no shortcut in the IDE for Quick Edit?

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/21

I hope this feature gets added: [WayBack] Is there no shortcut in the IDE for Quick Edit? – Reinier Sterkenburg – Google+.

The thread evolved into a few posts about failing keyboard handling (including Shift-F10) which has been failing for a long time and known to the development team for almost that time.

Hopefully things like that get fixed one day as well.

–jeroen

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Passing parameters to a Bash function – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/20

Since I tend to forget this:

  1. you can declare bash functions with parenthesis
  2. you pass parameters to functions space delimited (often people quote each parameter)
  3. within functions you can refer to parameters by number just like the parameters passed to a shell script

More info at:

I think for functions, you can apply what is linked from Some useful links on bash parameters: $1, $*, $@, quotes, etc., so a loop over all parameters in a function is the same as in a script, see [WayBack] shell – how to loop through arguments in a bash script – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange from Gilles:

There’s a special syntax for this:

for i do
  echo "$i"
done

More generally, the list of parameters of the current script or function is available through the special variable $@.

for i in "$@"; do
  echo "$i"
done

Note that you need the double quotes around $@, otherwise the parameters undergo wildcard expansion and field splitting. "$@" is magic: despite the double quotes, it expands into as many fields as there are parameters.

print_arguments () {
  for i in "$@"; do echo "$i"; done
}
print_arguments 'hello world' '*' 'special   !\characters'    # prints 3 lines
print_arguments ''                                            # prints one empty line
print_arguments                                               # prints nothing
 –jeroen

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sed double expression: match, replace in one line, overwrite file

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/15

A while ago, I needed to conditionally replace in files, so I used sed and a regular expression, though usually I dislike those.

However, since the system had a very basic install, there was not much choice.

Luckily back then, my Google foo returned these:

This allowed me to do a double expression (the first matches a pattern, the second performs the actual replacement within the matching lines).

In case my Google foo in the future fails:

## https://robots.thoughtbot.com/sed-102-replace-in-place
## -i causes no backup to be saved, but does in-place replacement
## since we run under git, we can always restore
## combined with a double expression (the first matches, the second executes) this is very powerful
sed -i -e '/#.*AVOID_DAILY_AUTOCOMMITS=.*$/s/^.//' /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf && git diff | more

–jeroen

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GitHub – JensBorrisholt/GoogleSpeak: This repository demonstrates how to Use Google for implementing Text to Speech. You’ll find both a Delphi version and a C# version

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/15

For my link archive, as I will likely need this one day: [WayBack] GitHub – JensBorrisholt/GoogleSpeak: This repository demonstrates how to Use Google for implementing Text to Speech. You’ll find both a Delphi version and a C# version

–jeroen

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I am in love with colors and design – UX Planet

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/14

Really cool not too long read: [WayBack] I am in love with colors and design – UX Planet:

How to improve human experience through color

[WayBack] “I’m in love with color” – No Google designer currently working at the company ever. Interesting read, btw. Some great examples, too. – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+

–jeroen

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Binary search for finding problematic versions: install a specific version in homebrew and git bisect

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/14

I’ve used these excellent posts to find out which youtube-dl version started to exhibit troublesome NPO downloads, then later find the actual failing commit:

Why the effort? I needed an as recent as possible youtube-dl working on as many sites as possible because of some work preparation.

The first link is very important because brew versions and alternatives have stopped working some 6 years ago, even though they turn up high on Google searches for brew install specific version. Hence the quote from the first link:

Installing software packages on Mac is very easy with homebrew. You typically get the latest version, however often in production you do not have the latest version of a software package. Another use case is when you upgrade to the latest and you find out there is bug which blocks you doing something. In this case you would like to downgrade to the previous version until the bug is fixed.In both cases you need to install a specific version of a software package with homebrew on your Mac, which tends to be not that trivial. There is a lot of discussion about this on stackoverflow but some of them are outdated based on brew versions which is not available anymore.

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Posted in Apple, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Event, git, Home brew / homebrew, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, Source Code Management, YouTube | Leave a Comment »

Bug Finder, A Real Win32 Extensible Passive Debugger – CodeProject

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/09

On my research list is [WayBack] GitHub – DareDevil73/bug-finder: Windows passive debugger.  with an article at [WayBack] Bug Finder, A Real Win32 Extensible Passive Debugger – CodeProject:

The Bug Finder is a real Win32 debugger, entirely written in Borland Delphi, which analyzes your application execution flow, so you can:

  1. Catch exceptions on the main executable, external DLLs, primary and working threads.
  2. Produce a detailed stack trace about each exception.
  3. Place a symbolic breakpoint to get, in place of a program debug break, a full stack trace log message (dynamic tracing).
  4. Produce detailed and rotative log files for a batch application behaviour inspection.
  5. Capture output of OutputDebugString API to log file (to provide extra debugging information by yourself directly into your code).
  6. Trace Process, Threads and DLLs activities.

I found documentation at [WayBack] DareDevil73 … docs, but the binary dependencies and installer are on SourceForge (where the project was originally located) and CodeProject which cannot be archived so I will look into that when it pops to the top of my research list.

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] Bug Finder by Antonio Petricca (in 2013?) Have any of you tried it? – Lars Fosdal – Google+

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