Archive for April, 2008

April 25th

pushd and popd

It's amazing how one can keep on learning new bash tricks year after year. Today's candy is a pair of bash builtins: pushd and popd. pushd pushes a path on a stack, and popd pops the latest stacked...
April 21st

Logo for the Nordic Perl Workshop 2008

Lately I have been helping Claes Jakobsson to prepare the 6th edition of the Nordic Perl Workshop, to be held in Stockholm this year, at the end of may: http://conferences.yapceurope.org/npw2008/...
April 6th

Everything is impermanent

I had a shock yesterday when I realized that I could not remember the name of the software I was working on 5 years ago. 5 years ago I had been working for 3 years on developing a software...
April 4th

Developer motivation versus team growth

It seems hard to keep the motivation and engagement of a team of programmers at its top when their software's growth requires the team to expand. There is a fine line to walk there, along which...