Dreamdir and the Unix Philosophy, or Likable Software
This weekend I released version 2.0.0 of my open-source Dreamdir file format and associated application, termed dr. Dreamdir is one of my tools for keepi...
scripts
Less-Quantifiable Benefits of Automation and Process Improvement
An engineer is someone who will spend three hours figuring out how to do a two-hour job in one hour. Anonymous
Scripting as Effective Communication
Take a moment right now to recognize how amazing a device a computer is. That little hunk of metal on your desk or in your pocket or in a vast se...
The Art of Naming Files: Naming Conventions
In the previous post, we focused on the mechanics of naming, things like what characters we should be using and how we can make files sort appropriat...
The Art of Naming Files: Mechanical Considerations
There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. Anonymous
