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The *nix Rube Goldberg Machine – find/grep/vim

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Ryan Rauh

Learn your shell! Piping grep into grep I was spelunking my .bash_history and came across this little piece of awesome. ~/lecode> find source/ -type f | grep -v ” ” | xargs grep this\.Asset.* | grep dovetail | grep -v … Continue reading →

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The *nix Rube Goldberg Machine

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Ryan Rauh

Learn your shell! Last time I posted a quick intro into basic shell programming. “Bash isn’t programming, its scripting…” “Shut up troll, its programming” This time I’d like to quickly explain loops. I’ll give you a quick example of how … Continue reading →

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How Not to Say "Um" When Presenting

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Sharon Cichelli

I’ll start with the tip, then unpack the reason why it works and explain how to apply it. To avoid those hemming and hawing filler words—um, y’know, like—and give your presentations the polish of eloquence: Make eye contact. An Excursion … Continue reading →

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The *nix Rube Goldberg Machine!

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Ryan Rauh

Learn your shell! Since I’ve started at Dovetail in June the best tool I’ve sharpened is my command line skills. My first week at Dovetail we got a surprise visit from @bob_pace and while pairing with him I was amazed … Continue reading →

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Coding with Friends: You should be here, too!

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Sharon Cichelli

Come hang out with us this Thursday. Polyglot Programmers of Austin is a co-working study group for people learning a new programming language (or their first), 2nd and 4th Thursdays. We bring our laptops and work individually or in pairs … Continue reading →

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RabbitMQ for Windows: Hello World Review

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Derek Greer

This is the third installment to the series: RabbitMQ for Windows.  In the last installment, we discussed some basic messaging concepts and created our first RabbitMQ application.  In this installment, we’ll be taking a closer look at our Hello World … Continue reading →

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Dependency Management in .Net: Offline Dependencies with NuGet Command Line Tool

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Derek Greer

Today I stumbled upon Scott Haselman’s post: How to access NuGet when NuGet.org is down (or you’re on a plane) in which Scott discusses how he recovered from an issue with the nuget.org site being down during his demo at … Continue reading →

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RabbitMQ for Windows: Building Your First Application

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Derek Greer

This is the second installment to the RabbitMQ for Windows series.  In our first installment, we walked through getting RabbitMQ installed on a Microsoft Windows machine. In this installment, we’ll discuss a few high-level concepts and walk through creating our … Continue reading →

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PluralSight videos: How to change the playback speed

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Sharon Cichelli

Once I discovered the secret of how to adjust the playback speed of PluralSight’s training videos, deciding to subscribe became trivially easy. It was never the financial cost that stayed my hand, because the content is excellent, relevant, and plentiful; … Continue reading →

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RabbitMQ for Windows: Introduction

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Derek Greer

If you’re interested in getting started with distributed programming and you develop on the Microsoft Windows platform, RabbitMQ may be what you’re looking for.  RabbitMQ is an open source, standards-based, multi-platform message broker with client libraries available for a host … Continue reading →

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