AWK ! A boon for CLI enthusiasts

AWK is a general purpose programming language that is designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams, and was created at Bell Labs in the 1970s I noticed that Erik Wendelin wrote an article “awk is a beautiful tool.” In this article he said that it was best to introduce Awk with [...]

Bad day: whack your boss

Too much work ? Slow servers ? Boss going crazy ?  Nothing working out ? Feel like killing someone ? ?

103 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed

inspired from: codesqueeze.com Management has renamed its Waterfall process to Agile Waterfall You start hiring consultants so they can take the blame The Continuous Integration server has returned the error message “Fuck it, I give up” You have implemented your own Ruby framework that uses XML configuration files

Pagination in mysql CLI

Ever wonder how to scroll upwards in mysl resultset ? What if your terminal doesn’t allow scrollback or the scrollback buffer is somehow set to sreen lines ? How to use MORE or LESS unix commands in mysql which would allow to scroll using ‘return’ or ‘spacebar’ Follow the steps given below: [Invoke mysql using [...]