I’ve been back and forth between tabs and spaces for code indentation in recent years. My exposure to Python lead me down the path of spaces, while in the past I had stuck to tabs in my PHP, Perl & Java. When its my own code it’s fine to use whichever I feel is […]
Patrick Lagacé’s Conntrack Viewer is a really handy little Perl script that formats the contents of /proc/net/ip_conntrack. It came in handy today trying to figure out what our firewall was up to. It’s definitely going into my permanent toolkit. I surprised I hadn’t found it sooner.
One reason why testing environments are important and why programmers shouldn’t be given access to production environments:
“… This is very bad indeed. 2500 linux servers had to be rebooted. I owe a lot of beers.”
(From "Journal of Matts")
Ouch! I think many of us have made similar mistakes… hopefully only once.
Since I started using a CLI on a regular basis 7 years ago I’ve used a Perl script that looped over a list of files and executed a regular expression replace on each line of the input files for search and replace. I recently found out that Perl has command line options to make […]
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