The UML: A little more than boxes and lines
A number of years ago I wrote myself an abridged guide to UML…
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Bashing out script locations
$(basename “$0”) does not always give a script its own real location…
I’m gonna need a bigger box
My Terminiator T-800 model build is half completed. It all started back in March 2021 with the arrival of a six-pack of boxes.
Migrating to Minimal Mistakes
Minimal mistakes is a great Jekyll theme. Perfect for building personal sites, blogs, and portfolios.
From Ring & Reserve to Click & Collect
10 years on I am reminded of an article I read from 2011 about Click & Collect.
The New Bible for IT Architects
I have just finished reading The Software Architect Elevator by Gregor Hohpe. It is rare these days for me to read a book from cover to cover. This was a wel...
Bashing out Spaces
There’s no need to use tr, sed and awk to trim whitespace from variables in Bash. Here’s how.
Bashing out basename and dirname
To find out the file and path components of a full filename, code similar to the following is often used: fullname="/path/to/filename" filename=$(basename "$...