Archive for February, 2010

Backward & Forward search in BASH

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

For a long time now I have been addicted to using C-r (control-r) to do a reverse search in the terminal. If you haven’t done this, do it, it’s a huge time saver. Just hit C-r and start typing something unique from the command you are trying to recall.

The takeaway is to add “stty stop undef” to your .bashrc file if you’re using Ubuntu or OSX–then you can scroll through your matches using Ctrl+R/Ctrl+S.
Massive time-saver.

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Sunburst for Netbeans + Anonymous Pro Font = One happy developer

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

NetBeans Sunburst Color Theme

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The Sunburst theme for Netbeans and the excellent Anynomous Pro mono-spaced font have cut down eyestrain, confusion, and existential angst in my day-to-day coding work.

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How fasting could help you slow down the ageing process

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Fasting every other day may be a way to live longer as well as lose weight.

It may also lower the risk of conditions such as heart disease and cancer, as well as ease symptoms of chronic ailments.

A good roundup of a some of the available information.

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Robots + Beer = Progress

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

This Heineken pouring robot from Middlesex University was strutting its stuff at the Kinetica Gallery in London recently, driving around a table and pouring beer (a very little bit of beer) on demand

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Signs of liquid water in Saturnian moon

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
(STFC) – Scientists working on the Cassini space mission have found negatively charged water ions in the ice plume of Enceladus. Their findings, based on analysis from data taken in plume fly-throughs in 2008 and reported in the journal Icarus, provide evidence for the presence of liquid water, which suggests the ingredients for life inside the icy moon. The Cassini plasma spectrometer, used to gather this data, also found other species of negatively charged ions including hydrocarbons.

Would not be surprised–especially in light of the methane plumes on Mars–to find our celestial back yard just teeming with life.

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LESS - Leaner CSS framework [by way of @brendanadkins]

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Excited to try this out!

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apache friends - xampp

Monday, February 8th, 2010

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.

Quick LAMP stack with no re-compiles, dependency nightmares, or extensive hair loss.

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