I miss the automated refactorings in Eclipse. While I am sure that other languages will catch up eventually, for now, I find myself refactoring manually. Here is an example of how I did an “Extract Method” refactoring in Javascript.
“I don’t want to do it. I wouldn’t enjoy it.”
I knew what he meant, probably better than he did himself. I think I knew that this would happen, or at least strongly suspected. I knew when we were so slow leaving the city. I knew from the way he had withdrawn into his cell phone, texting with his wife.
Continue readingThe systemd author insists that everything should be callable from an elf binary? Who am I to argue? Actually, I like the idea. So, how would we go about running the tomcat startup?
NFS is the NAS equivalent of Democracy: the worst implementation except for all the others. If you want a remote home directory for your users, chances are you’ve contemplated Automount as the solution for it. I’ve been working on Automount support for the web UI in FreeIPA. Here’s the concept. When you add a user, you want to delay creation of the users home directory on some subset of Network Devices. This is a tricky problem to solve. Here’s why.
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