tag:www.pgrs.net,2008:mephisto/comments Mephisto Noh-Varr 2008-03-15T00:37:49Z Eric tag:www.pgrs.net,2007-10-08:91:1139 2008-03-15T00:37:49Z 2008-03-15T00:37:49Z Luis: Just about everything doesn't come with Solaris by default. Paul Gross tag:www.pgrs.net,2008-03-13:1103:1125 2008-03-14T04:31:58Z 2008-03-14T04:31:58Z James, return tickets are often cheaper than two one-ways, but it depends. I have booked tickets where the legs were on different airlines, but this can be more of a hassle. I find that it is better to stick with one primary airline in order to maximize miles and airline status. Kasper tag:www.pgrs.net,2008-03-13:1103:1116 2008-03-13T21:34:55Z 2008-03-13T21:34:55Z Rule 240 might be appliable to some of those cancellations http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22900119 James Webster tag:www.pgrs.net,2008-03-13:1103:1108 2008-03-13T07:21:47Z 2008-03-13T07:21:47Z Are domestic airfares not sold by the leg in the US? In Australia and (I believe) Europe, most domestic fares are priced such that a 'return' ticket with one airline is not cheaper than two single tickets with the same airline... in my experience. If the same thing applies with the US, why not fly out with the airline that has a hub in your destination city, and back home with the airline that has a hub at home? I have alot of respect for North American-based consultants and the amount of flying you do... I did a bit of consulting there myself a few years ago, I stayed put in San Antonio but everyone else was flying in and out. One guy lived in Jacksonville, FL so had to go via Atlanta every week. Needless to say the number of times his flight's were cancelled or connections were missed was ridiculously high! JoshG tag:www.pgrs.net,2008-02-26:914:1096 2008-03-12T14:48:30Z 2008-03-12T14:48:30Z G'day mate, As you will remember from reading our December Innovation Newsletter ;-) my suggestions to solve the underlying problem is to test and build _less_. JTestMe helps by letting you have very fast feedback from smoke tests that only test what you've just changed. Less to test (initially). Breaking the application down into smaller, composable pieces is also a good idea. Less to build and test :-) Cheers, Josh anonymous coward tag:www.pgrs.net,2007-10-08:91:1066 2008-03-10T13:38:40Z 2008-03-10T13:38:40Z On example one, using `less` instead of `tail`: I don't agree that it should be considered a good practice. The number one reason is the line tracking functionality of `less`. When you `less` a very large file - as /var/log/messages tends to get to be - you may then have to wait on the system to catch up while it numbers all the lines in the file. Instead, my recommendation is to create a `tail` alias by doing this: echo 'alias tail="tail -n 1000"' >> /etc/profile Nikolai tag:www.pgrs.net,2007-10-08:91:1026 2008-03-05T19:01:57Z 2008-03-05T19:01:57Z Good examples, thanks. I did not know about the last one :) The above user is correct, there is no dash in "ps f" command. the "ps -f" command is basically the same as "ps"; it prints some extra info. Chris tag:www.pgrs.net,2008-02-26:914:1016 2008-03-04T21:52:56Z 2008-03-04T21:52:56Z I've had great success with seriously increasing the speed of selenium test suites by making the application under development set suitable cache-control headers in responses, enabling the browser to cache content. 500x so on one project. You have to be a little more careful to clean your caches at the start of each build, but it's well worth the effort. There's also a catch with Firefox - by default selenium disables both disk AND memory caching (huh?!) in Firefox. This can be fixed, but I don't remember how right now... Mark Wilden tag:www.pgrs.net,2008-02-26:914:922 2008-02-26T17:29:03Z 2008-02-26T17:29:03Z Thanks a lot for this - good stuff. However, 'rake spec --trace' doesn't seem to show task timings for me. Is there something else? On the other hand, we just added --format profile to our spec.opts, and that showed us the top 10 slowests specs, which was very useful. ///ark isecore tag:www.pgrs.net,2007-10-08:91:911 2008-02-25T23:54:34Z 2008-02-25T23:54:34Z Ghettohaxor: There's no dash (-) in the command. Just "ps f" without the quotes. As for lsof, that's one powerful command. There's very few things you can't find out about your machine using that command. StarTrader tag:www.pgrs.net,2008-02-21:860:871 2008-02-22T16:18:57Z 2008-02-22T16:18:57Z Yep, I've run into this as well. One of the places I've been bit most often is something like: hash = Hash.new([]) Everything works fine until it comes back from the database and forgets that it needs to return an empty array for unknown keys. 'NoMethodError: undefined method `<<' for nil:NilClass' is the usual result. I've not found a good way around this yet. Matt Williams tag:www.pgrs.net,2008-02-21:860:863 2008-02-21T14:14:38Z 2008-02-21T14:14:38Z You might also consider looking at java2java -- it will dump to a string the current code of a class; I think it may work on objects as well. Ghettohaxor tag:www.pgrs.net,2007-10-08:91:857 2008-02-20T19:17:40Z 2008-02-20T19:17:40Z the ps -f flag doesnt work in most unix clones. it doesnt work in FreeBSD for example. paco tag:www.pgrs.net,2008-01-23:536:850 2008-02-20T08:40:11Z 2008-02-20T08:40:11Z I like to use awk instead of cut in these situations, sometimes cut + whitespaces are evil :-P Here you are my line: svn st |grep ^\?| awk '{print $2}'|xargs rm Techdudes.blogspot tag:www.pgrs.net,2007-10-08:91:846 2008-02-19T06:58:36Z 2008-02-19T06:58:36Z Good one. but i want some more on cygwin... i am winXP user and using cygwin for my scripting needs... so it will be very good if you can provide detailed one on cygwin and which packages i need to install on windows. Techdudes.