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Monthly Archives: December 2011

Goodbye Python….

Your package management still sucks…. and languages like Clojure have set the bar that a modern language needs built in package and dependency management. Lets not even talk about Ruby and Gems here. Or lets – because I’m a Ruby man now. Plus Rails has no peer for a complete workflow (including asset management and [...]

Timestamp quickies

To get the current timestamp on your linux machine  (oddly has some problem on my customized zsh shell. works fine on bash) date +%s To convert timestamp to date format on your linux machine date -d @<timestamp> Date to timestamp is date -d “Dec 21, 2011 22:00:01″ +%s and for heaven’s sake when you are [...]

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