Jim Bodie<p>At work, I have designed a software registry of software packages I build. It tracks package name, version, platform, install date and dependencies. It works great and it integrated into hundreds of build docs and (un)install scripts. </p><p>Works great as it is, so of course I am planning on adding a field for software build date that will require modification of most of those build docs and install scripts. Will be worth it in the end.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Work" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Work</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Development</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Programing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Programing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Work" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Work</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WorkPrograming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WorkPrograming</span></a></p>
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Jim Bodie<p>I just spent far far too much time debugging a trio of split() statements in my Perl program. I copy 'n pasted them so they all had the same problem. The problem? I had a dot (.) instead of a comma (,) to separate the parameters. A dot and comma look very similar in the standard xterm font. Once I fixed that, it looks like my program works quite well!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Development</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Programing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Programing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Perl</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Work" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Work</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WorkPrograming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WorkPrograming</span></a></p>
Jim Bodie<p>When I took my very first college programming class, Winter Quarter 1989, we had to write up pseudocode before we wrote our programs. I didn't see why. The programs were simple enough that we could just jump into programming them. Jump forward 33+ years and once again I wrote up al algorithm in a very loose pseudocode on my whiteboard to help figure out how I want to do something. Sometimes stuff you learn in school comes in handy now and then. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Development</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Programing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Programing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Work" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Work</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WorkPrograming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WorkPrograming</span></a></p>
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