Command line tools should do what people expect. It’s a bit chaotic to navigate how to parse command line parameters since there are many conventions.<ul> A single - to indicate a short parameter, that is: -a Two -- to indicate a long parameter, that is: --alpha A single / to indicate a parameter, that is: /alpha A single - to indicate a parameter, that is: -alpha A parameter followed by a space and then a value for that parameter: /alpha value A parameter followed by a = and then a value for that paramete[...]

Microsoft has added owin support for asp.net. This is exciting since it can yield different web servers. Why is this a good thing? It could mean that it gets easier to self host a local only web server, that you can host an asp.net site in different environments.

Looks like materialized views are coming to postgres :).

Whats good about spreadsheets? Spreadsheet applications offers a lot of usability. The concept of using a grid of variables that are easy to reference is a surprisingly powerful  concept. Many applications can be prototyped in spread sheet applications. I use google drive in order to have a powerful and flexible time reporting solution. I quickly realized that in order to have a software that exceeds these benefits, I would have to spend a lot of time writing it. What can be improved? A few days ago I [...]

We have written a lot of ruby code in the project I’m currently working in. There is a lot of code to help manage, build and schedule the program. We started out simple enough. Just one folder with helper scripts. After 2 years we have built up support for a wide variety of tasks.<h3> Command line tools</h3> We have used and abused<blockquote class="tr_bq"> $:.unshift File.dirname(FILE) </blockquote>  and similar constructs far to much. This makes it hard to get a good overview of dependencies between file[...]