About
October 14th, 2007
I am still learning UNIX/Linux after using Red Hat for the first time almost 10 years ago.While I work in the online software I am least of all a web page designer. That is, I don’t write HTML. As such, the pages that I create are typically very plain and functional.
My goal in life is to be happy and to someday circumnavigate on a small sailboat. I live in flyover country. If you would like to contact me you can do so by commenting on a post.
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Why cure cancer? If it is ment to be funny, it isn’t.
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Pedro,
Yours is a fair criticism. To be sure, I don’t mean to demean the seriousness of cancer. In fact, in my mind, I am doing quite the opposite.
I was trying to convey the power of the Linux/UNIX command line. As I tend to do when stressing something, BASH Cures Cancer is an extreme, extreme exaggeration. This is evident in that a cure for cancer would certainly be the greatest achievement in all of achievement.
I am truly sorry if it offends. With that said, its meant to be taken in a light hearted manner
June 9th, 2008 at 6:10 am
If you were using bash to do bioinformatics, it just might help to cure cancer.
January 8th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Great blog dude. Why don’t you use Twitter to announce the new posts?
Regards from South of Brazil.
Leo
October 7th, 2010 at 1:40 am
I’m sorry, i couldn’t get your email link to work…so i decided to put a comment instead.
Here are couple of bash-fu command lines, that i think are pretty cool
1) The Following displays the prime numbers < 1000
seq 1000 | factor | egrep "([0-9]*): \1$" | cut -d" " -f2
2) The Following Calculates the sum of the prime numbers < 1000
seq 1000 | factor | egrep "([0-9]*): \1$" | cut -d" " -f2 | paste -sd+ | bc
It's not particularly usefull, but it's pretty awesome!
January 15th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Good idea!
February 16th, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Congrats on your new gig. I’ve been following “bcc” for a few months now and always look forward to your posts. I’m intrigued by your career move since I’m always trying to map out my own. I started out as a unix SA about 12 years ago and since then have worked in many exciting web ops environments. Currently I’m managing an online engineering team and am enjoying (almost) every minute of it but I ask myself, “what do I wanna do for the next 30 years of my life?” Scaling and supporting infrastructure is cool but I always felt like the true “producers” were the devs. I’ve been dabbling with ruby and python and am only now beginning to get into an OOP mindset after many years of bash scripting and find it very engaging and expressive in a creative way. Can I ask how you ended up making the move you did and were/are there any concerns that you have? Mainly I’m just looking for some insight and guidance. Thanks
March 17th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Hi,
I was posting for my old team. I actually made that move, ops -> dev four years back. I think it’s a great move as you see the whole product lifecycle. Also, the developers are smart, but not as smart as they often seem!
I actually have made another career move a few months back. I am now working as Cloudera as an Instructor!
Brock