Tagged: development

BPMN is great. We draw what we want to execute, and the engine takes care about the parallelism parts. We visually represent how the parts of the program are wired. With adhesive, we take it one step further and instantly implement the backing process. So let's start designing!

Whenever a new server needs to be managed, the first task is to upload my public key on that system, so I don't need to ever remember the password again, and use it again. Here's how I automated that process.

When calling functions in python, it makes sense to name the arguments, since they convey what values mean. A call to update(3, 5) is communicating less than update(major_version=3, minor_version=5). So how do we enforce that?

Sometimes things in life are simple. Python in particular allows checking if iterables or strings are empty, and if values are False, with just the not operator. Sometimes life is not that simple :).

If you like me like to create virtual environments for everything, then you'll already sold on the idea of virtualenvs. The good news is that since Python 3.3 there's a new module part of standard python: venv.

Since 2014 I was using Pathogen to manage my Vim plugins. This Tuesday (19th of March, 2019), after a lot of deliberation I finally moved to Vundle. I couldn't be happier.

How are we to write better quality texts, faster? The spectrum of assistant programs that aid us in writing texts has increased dramatically. From Word itself that has an outstanding grammar checker bundled in, to grammarly, or more into the command line tools diction and vim, the choices seem endless. Since my focus is using the same writing tool for everything, I settled on Vim, and I use only 2 settings.

One of the most common interactions in browsers is writing keys. Germanium has a trivially simple API to type keys, that includes shortcut handling, and special keys such as . Here's how:

Roughly 10 years ago, there used to be a time when I really believed Java was the answer to almost everything. JSF2 was just appearing, and the component model they had was amazing. GWT was out in full swing, with the plan to conquer the world. EJB3 were the next big thing. Ten years later it is all dust. Sic transit gloria mundi.

So in the yesterday's article I ranted on why shell scripting in general, with bash in particular is terrible. But there's a reason why we write shell scripts, namely that we're in the same domain of the commands that we know. Here's how to use the same knowledge in the python scripts: