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On This Day...

• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending December 16, 2011 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Follow up on possible next engagements – got next Drupal project lined up, [...]
• 2010: Test-driven development and happiness — Me: Happiness is a test suite that passes. @philiph: Do you practice test-driven development for your [...]
• 2009: Learning plan for 2010 — Here are my priorities for 2010: Share as much as I can at work and in life. I want to share [...]
• 2008: Leavin’ well enough alone — So I’ve gotten my Linux partition mostly back into working order. I had run out of hard disk space on [...]
• 2008: #hohoto conversations — I put “Sacha Chua, @sachac, livinganawesomelife.com” on my nametag because putting “Sacha Chua, @sachac, sachachua.com” felt a bit repetitive. It [...]
• 2007: Rethinking II — It’s funny, but the On This Day widget on my personal blog tells me that precisely three years ago, I [...]
• 2007: Rethinking — There’s nothing like a commute to make me think existentially. ;) The 1.5 hour commute up to and 1.5 hour [...]
• 2007: The Tick —
• 2004: Linux advocacy: not just preaching to the choir — Graphical user interfaces have their advantages and disadvantages. While they present information in an easy-to-understand manner and make it easier for new [...]
• 2004: The uses of darou: だろう — In writing, 本当のだろうか is preferred over 本当ですか. のでしょうか is the polite form. Other uses of darou 1. 推測 (guess, conjecture) だろう でしょう 2. 疑問 (question) のでしょうか のだろうか 3. 原因、理由の推測 のでしょう のだろう 4. [...]
• 2004: Summarizing reading 8-2-1 — 若者の日本語力が低下していること。きちんとした言葉を使う機会が減れば減 るほど、言語能力は低下するという原因。国語という日本語を積極的に勉強し なければならないということ。 Tip: For summaries, end sentences with nouns like こと or 原因.
• 2004: Kanji of the day — 1`Webブラウザから要求を受信すると、wwwサーバーはそれに対応する情報を送り返します。 Webブラウザからようきゅうをじゅしんすると、wwwサーバーはそれにたいおうするじょうほうをおくりかえします。 送り返します。| [It] sends [it] back. 情報を送り返します。| [It] sends back information. 対応する情報を送り返します。| [It] sends back the corresponding information. それに対応する情報を送り返します。| [It] sends back the information [...]
• 2004: On the virtues of idleness — Read Quitting the Paint Factory and reflect a bit on the space we should create in our lives. =)
• 2003: Revised sacha/perl-training/suck-data-in — (defun sacha/perl-training/suck-data-in () "Insert BBDB records for all the Perl trainees." (interactive) (goto-char (point-min)) (while (re-search-forward [...]
• 2003: Elisp code to insert all — Data is of the form number|Name|e-mail|Expectations (defun sacha/perl-training/suck-data-in () "Insert BBDB records for all the Perl trainees." (interactive) (goto-char [...]
• 2003: Extracting the trainees’ files and packaging them — Shell scripting to the rescue! # Zip their work up for DIR in *; do ( cd $DIR; zip perl-day1.zip * ); [...]
• 2003: Extracting all the mail addresses from the programs — grep -ri 'mail' * -A 10 -B 10 | less This displays enough context information around the data so that I [...]
• 2003: Project ideas — Rating system – they’ve got this already
• 2003: Perl focus — - Reading source code, testing, adapting software to their own needs - 4 programmers
• 2003: Stuff at [[../learn/perl/training/day1]] so far — Oh no, it’s 12:05 and I haven’t even started on Real Text Processing… Teaching.Perl