Category: UNIX

Using Code-Swarms as a developer KPI

If You are developer in a company that doesn’t involve software development as its main product or line of business: Then you must be suffering from time to time about reporting your work and communicating the efforts you make as KPIs.

Everyone has to provide monthly ,dull and boring charts and tables KPIs showing the amount of work they did, begging for attention about their work.

Somehow developers lack the artistic and eye-catching way to present their work.

Well I propose to use “Code Swarms” to show your development effort in the projects you work on.

gourcing git project

gourcing git project

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Productivity: USB Multiboot ISO

Ever wanted to boot a PC from a USB stick, but had to download a thousand tools and follow a million steps guide that never works ?

Well this excellent tool from www.pendrivelinux.com is not only going to help you create a bootable USB, but also multi-boot it with some top linux distribution and windows.

multibootUSB Application

multibootUSB Application

You don’t really have to do anything yourself. Not even download the ISO files , it does that for you.

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Learn vi in 100 minutes.

If your working environment  has Linux or Unix systems in it, then you must have heard about vi the text editor.

Everything would be just faster if you could edit the text files in shell window with vi, rather than transfer them to a windows with (S)FTP –> Edit with notepad –> transfer back to *NIX.

Thats why I created the “vi tutorial”. find it in my Tutorials page.

The tutorial is available here in PDF, HTML and Adobe-Flash Formats

I recommend you to have a look at the Regular Expressions tutorial also.

This tutorial:

  • Explains the two modes of operations in VI.
  • Explains various commands and shortcut keys for text manipulation.
  • How to search and replace efficiently with regular expressions with vi.
  • Using vi in several work scenarios, for example fixing CR LF windows-to-*nix problem.
  • Explains 3  copy/cut’n’paste techniques possible with vi.
  • How to set up vi properly.

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