I’ve been playing around with bash scripting quite a bit recently in relation to my current job.
Came up with one that’s really useful (imho) around chkconfig:
# mass set all services known to chkconfig to be `on` or `off` at given level
# written by warren myers – warren@warrenmyers.com
# 28 sep 2009
echo “USAGE:”
echo ” $0 <level> [on|off]”
echo
# list [...]
Category Archives: code
shell scripting
Thursday, October 15, 2009
tiny code
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
I ran across the Tiny Code site recently, and was reminded of how many of us started programming on ancient machines that barely had enough horsepower to handle typing – yet we’d spend hours on end writing little games and whatnot that had to be small or they wouldn’t run.
I’d love to see a return [...]
gold medallion
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
While certainly not as exciting as Tarus’ achievement, I did just roll to Gold status with Delta – and had I never cashed-in flier miles in the past, I’d be sitting in the neighborhood of 250k instead of 150.
So yes, like him I’m in that group that everybody else hates – the folks who get [...]
an alpha product – dal
Thursday, October 12, 2006
I’ve been on a coding kick recently, and have started working on a database abstraction layer (DAL) for PHP. I think that applications should be developed as much as possible to be backend agnostic. In other words, it shouldn’t matter to the application whether it’s accessing a mysql, postgresql, oracle, access, or any other database [...]
