GROKKING SIMPLICITY IS a book that shows how to use functional design principals to reduce complexities in software. The books examples are in javascript, but should apply well to C and similar languages also. Abstract Chapters: Actions, calculations and data First two chapters are about learning some basic design principals. Read more…
A second search for bash scripting alternatives SHELL SCRIPTING IS something most programmers will encounter often – especially if doing dev-ops, automation and general Linux work. Unfortunately we are mostly stuck with bash. There surely must be better alternatives… I have been in search for a bash replacement before. My Read more…
I AM CONTEMPLATING using a scripting language for a small project. In the initial phase, the script will just be a shallow front-end for an existing program which will do all the heavy lifting. With that in mind, a dedicated shell scripting language like bash would seem more fitting. I’m Read more…
GITHUB PR TEMPLATES are one of the many tools github provide to enhance daily use. This feature allows to “dump” some self-defined markdown into the PR description field upon creation of PR’s. In my current team at work we do a lot of automated testing. All updates to the test Read more…
MY ENCOUNTERS ON doing web development, is a “small” writeup on the experiences and considerations I had when updating and re-writing a web-app used for a product at work. The web-app is an UI served from the product and is used to provide basic daily use, simple adjustment and advanced Read more…
AFTER INSTALLING GARMIN Connect IQ SDK on Ubuntu-20, using the script I created in Installing Garmin Connect IQ SDK on Ubuntu-20, I realized that building would work fine, but the simulator wouldn’t run due to the same dependency issue. ./bin/sdkmanager: error while loading shared libraries: libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object Read more…
GARMIN HAS LINUX support for their developer SDK which is awesome! Unfortunately the installer for the Garmin Connect IQ SDK, is a GTK based application that utilizes an older version of libwebkit which is available for Ubuntu-18 only. You’ll end up with an error like this: ./bin/sdkmanager: error while loading Read more…
RIGGING A BUILD system sounds very serious! In this case it was not though. More a case of friendly messing with the coworkers. A coworker recently reminded me of a “feature” I had put into a build script… Actually this mentioned “feature” was “features” and put in an umbrella script. Read more…
BETTERC IS A “subproject” of the D language. It enables writing a kind of C dialect, that benefits some of the modern language features provided by the D language. It does not utilize the runtime of the D language, and is essential what makes the language more C like in Read more…
AWK WAS SCARY but proved to be awesome! awk is not something I usually have reached for, when having to do more that trivial text processing tasks. Well, the classic column print functionality of awk is so strait forward that its unavoidable ;-) cat data.csv | awk -F ‘,’ ‘{ Read more…