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Exercise in futility … err … zenity

shashi @ August 20, 2008 # One Comment

The other day, while working with some shell scripts I thought I could add some better usability into the mix - and hence whip up some dialogs using zenity (gdialog’s new avatar). And while at it, I had an enjoyable 20 minutes with good old unix concepts. Here:
I needed to figure out how to use [...]

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Truly Plural!

shashi @ June 22, 2007 # One Comment

I was working on a small shell script to generate stubs for a project we’re working on. After arriving at a rough design and deciding on the class names, method names to be generated, I started generating the stubs (scaffolding?). And came across an amusing non technical issue. getBench() was fine, but getBenchs() wasn’t. [...]

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