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Aug 29, 2009
Hell Week in Software Development
I was reading David Stewart’s blog and I was so intrigued by his “Surviving Hell Week” post. It reminded me of a similar experience of mine long time ago when I was an undergraduate student. Interestingly, we both had the same feelings and reached similar conclusions. Therefore, I’ll share the story with you and then I’ll discuss some of the insightful lessons. It was my third... read more
May 25, 2009
How to Design a RESTful API
In order to understand how to design a RESTful API, you need to understand the concepts behind REST. The next section explains REST briefly. What is REST? Scalability and performance are two of the main concerns when developing hypermedia systems. Roy Fielding introduced an architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems that focus on minimizing latency while maximizing scalability. The introduced... read more
Mar 20, 2009
Linux command line repository
Here is another command line repository. It has a bunch of one line commands that we maybe using everyday. You can also comment and vote on these commands. Happy coding Please, share your thoughts... read more
Mar 16, 2009
Linux Virtual Terminals
As you all know, linux is a multi-user system. This means that you can login as two or more different users at the same time. To switch between virtual terminals, you can use the keyboard combination (Ctrl-)Left Alt-FN, where N is in range 1-12). You can also switch to any virtual terminal from the command line using chvt chvt 5 Switches to the virtual terminal number 5. Happy coding Please, share your... read more
Feb 19, 2009
Bash command line editing using vim
I was thinking that it’d be really cool if there is a way to edit my bash shell commands using vim. So, one of my friends told me about a pretty cool command called fc. It is basically a way to fix your last run command in a text editor like vim. All you have to do is to type fc in the command line. Then, you can use vim to type whatever command you want. After a little bit more of research, I... read more
